"scare" in English is often used to describe a public over-reaction to a perceived threat. In the US we had the "red scare" that was an over reaction to communi

"scare" in English is often used to describe a public over-reaction to a perceived threat. In the US we had the "red scare" that was an over reaction to communists in the US. A similar concept is the "satanic panic", the idea that all our children were being abducted by satanic cults.