In Risk and Blame, Anthropologist Mary Douglas describes the cultural basis for witch hunts in traditional societies. "Whether the witch is able to do harm or not, the attribution of a hidden power to hurt is a weapon of attack against them....A successful accusation is one that has enough credibility for a public outcry to remove the opportunity of repeating the damage." A moral panic starts with an unspeakable tragedy which sparks an attempt …showed first 75 words of 1119 total…

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