History Professor Mikki Brock discusses th e history of witch hunts\, both real and rhetorical.
\nWhat does it really mean when people in positions of power claim to be victims of a &ld quo\;witch hunt&rdquo\;? And what about the real history of the witch tria ls\, which claimed the lives of tens of thousands of women in sixteenth an d seventeenth-century Europe?
\nCome explore such questions with Pro fessor Brock\, who teaches a class on witch-hunts at Washington and Lee Un iverisity. Prepare for an evening of both horror and humor\, as she descri bes waves of rampant anxiety and appalling persecution as well as seemingl y bizarre premodern beliefs about demon sex and penis trees.
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