Satanic Panic

My mom's greatest fear was that my sister and I were going to get snatched by the devil. The literal devil.

When I was growing up, my mom was scared of a lot of things: driving more than five miles on any interstate highway, getting gray hairs in her head, tornadoes, escalators. But most of all she was afraid that my sister and I were going to get snatched by the devil. The literal devil. It was the 1980s in rural Georgia, which meant all news was local news,…