Witch Hunt: A Century of Murder
2015
1h 25m
Religious zeal, paranoia and trumped-up charges. For a century, they fueled brutal scourges that claimed innocent lives. Dr. Suzannah Lipscomb investigates the origins of the obsession for mass witch-hunts.
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