Bubba said - The sad part is many people lost their lives for no simple reason much as they did during the Reign of Terror in France. If you hated someone or wanted to get even, you accused them of witchcraft. Yes, Bubba - a sort of societal hysteria on a far worse scale, but not altogether dissimilar to, events like the United States House Un-American Activities' Blacklist after the second world war.....when scores of performers and artists like Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, and Burl Ives, etc., lost their livelihoods and their reputations when they were accused of being Communists, often on the same kind of say-so. During those proceedings, Numbers of people made accusations about others to shift focus from themselves. A classic tale of people who are threatened siding with their "captors" against their own in self-defense - commonly known in psychiatric circles as the Stockholm Syndrome. Those who don't learn from history .......... Barbara