Nov. 25, 2011 “In the prototypical witch hunts in Europe and in the Massachusetts colony, the accused were often scapegoats for some calamity – disease, bad harvests, the birth of a deformed child. “In the witch hunts of the ’80s, there was no such injury to be avenged or repaired. There was, however, a psychological … Continue reading Parents’ gullibility ‘grounded in anxiety’