Rumors about satanic rituals came up everywhere from Denver International Airport to Skull and Bones and Bohemian Grove to the Bilderberg Group... at least wherever NWO conspiracies overlapped with the Evangelical demographic that took things like Left Behind and John Hagee seriously. The satanic panic happened in the 1980s.
Maybe "many" is an overreach, but those beliefs were definitely present well before Pizzagate and Qanon.
Maybe "many" is an overreach, but those beliefs were definitely present well before Pizzagate and Qanon.