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Qué (quién) es witch-hunt - definición

SEARCH FOR WITCHES OR EVIDENCE OF WITCHCRAFT, OFTEN INVOLVING MORAL PANIC, OR MASS HYSTERIA
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  • The ''[[Malleus Maleficarum]]'' (the 'Hammer of Witches'), published in 1487, accused women of destroying men by planting bitter herbs throughout the field.
  • The ''Malefizhaus'' of [[Bamberg, Germany]], where suspected witches were held and interrogated. 1627 engraving.
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  • The drowning of an alleged witch, with [[Thomas Colley]] as the incitor
  • Burning witches, with others held in stocks, 14th century
  • The torture used against accused witches, 1577
  • Baden]], Switzerland (1585), by [[Johann Jakob Wick]]
  • ''The Witch Trial'' by [[William Powell Frith]] (1848)
  • The burning of a woman in [[Willisau]], [[Switzerland]], 1447
  • An image of suspected witches being hanged in England, published in 1655

witch-hunt         
¦ noun a campaign directed against a person or group holding views considered unorthodox or a threat to society.
Derivatives
witch-hunting noun
witch-hunt         
n. to conduct a witch-hunt against
witch-hunt         
(witch-hunts)
A witch-hunt is an attempt to find and punish a particular group of people who are being blamed for something, often simply because of their opinions and not because they have actually done anything wrong.
N-COUNT: oft N against n [disapproval]

Wikipedia

Witch-hunt

A witch-hunt, or a witch purge, is a search for people who have been labeled witches or a search for evidence of witchcraft. The classical period of witch-hunts in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America took place in the Early Modern period or about 1450 to 1750, spanning the upheavals of the Reformation and the Thirty Years' War, resulting in an estimated 35,000 to 50,000 executions. The last executions of people convicted as witches in Europe took place in the 18th century. In other regions, like Africa and Asia, contemporary witch-hunts have been reported from sub-Saharan Africa and Papua New Guinea, and official legislation against witchcraft is still found in Saudi Arabia and Cameroon today.

In current language, "witch-hunt" metaphorically means an investigation that is usually conducted with much publicity, supposedly to uncover subversive activity, disloyalty, and so on, but with the real purpose of intimidating political opponents. It can also involve elements of moral panic or mass hysteria.

Ejemplos de uso de witch-hunt
1. "They say this will not be a witch hunt, but we think it will be a silent and gradual witch hunt.
2. It‘s a political witch hunt," he told CNN‘s King.
3. Fletcher called the grand jury‘s investigation a political witch hunt.
4. Conservatives characterized the prosecution of Libby by Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald as a witch hunt.
5. "This is a real witch hunt," Genson told reporters outside earshot of the lawmakers.