The 2019 ‘Satanic panic’ around Brazil’s Floresta Nacional de Brasília fire rumors

Record summary

Brazilian social networks have repeatedly circulated claims that fires, crimes or missing-person cases resulted from satanic rituals, often attaching unrelated photographs and videos to local events. The 2019 period provides identifiable material for examining WhatsApp rumor, evangelical demonology, political polarization and the recycling of older Satanic Panic motifs. This lead should be assembled from specific fact-checks and archived posts rather than treated as one verified incident. The key comparison is between a global occult vocabulary and locally specific religious and political conflicts.