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Folk devil

a person or group of people who are portrayed in folklore or the media as outsiders and deviant
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Folk devil

Summary

Folk devil ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (59 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Folk devil's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/028nh4[2].
  • Folk devil's facet of is recorded as moral panic[3].
  • Folk devil's facet of is recorded as folklore[4].
  • Folk devil's facet of is recorded as mass media[5].
  • Folk devil's facet of is recorded as witch hunt[6].
  • Folk devil's described by source is recorded as Folk Devils and Moral Panics[7].
  • Folk devil's has characteristic is recorded as deviance[8].
  • Folk devil's named by is recorded as Stanley Cohen[9].

Why It Matters

Folk devil ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (59 views/month).[1]

Related Entities

folklore mass media

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_folk-devil_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Folk devil}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/folk-devil}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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