The ‘witch-hunts’ of history
WalesOnline: “The Oxford Dictionary of English describes a witch-hunt as ‘a search for and subsequent prosecution of a supposed witch’, or ‘a campaign directed against a person or group holding unorthodox or unpopular views’.
Historically, the term describes the investigative procedures used during witch-hunts of the Middle Ages up until the early Colonial period, when investigators were hunting for ‘witches’.”
(Via Wales Online.)
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