Emily Dia’s Reviews > In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial > Status Update

“Witch hunts demonstrate our capacity to ‘trigger a massacre by following the logic of lunatics.’”

“The witch hunts demonstrate the stubborn tendency of all societies to find a scapegoat for their misfortunes and to lock themselves into a spiral of irrationality, cut off from all reasonable challenge, until the accumulation of hate filled doctors and obsessional hostility justify a turn to physical violence, perceived as the legit anger defense of a beleaguered society.”