Tag: #ReligiousHistory
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The Machinery Behind History’s Deadliest Moral Panic
How Witch-Hunters Turned Ordinary People into the Devil’s Scapegoats The version most of us inherited is compact. Salem, 1692. A few frightened accusers, a brief collective madness, then sanity returned. What that version omits is the machinery underneath. These trials ran for centuries across two continents and were not accidents. They had procedure, specialists, and…