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witch-hunt a rigorous campaign to round up or expose dissenters on the pretext of safeguarding the welfare of the public How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Senator Joseph McCarthy, who unleashed an anti-communist witch-hunt in the 1950s. Lepore offers multiple possibilities about how events, which snowballed into a terrifying witch-hunt, may have unfolded. An Abundance Of Witches: The Great Scottish Witch-Hunt is a detailed history of witch-hunting and persecution in Scotland from approximately 1658-1662, an era generally thought to be the high point of a turbulent history of violence and hatred for accused witches. |
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