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- coven
- a group of witches so called because they had made a covenant with the devil
- witch hunt
- organized persecution religious, political, social raesons usually in times of stress or danger.
- scapegoat
- one who take the blame for troubles that beset a community especially unexplainable troubles.
- goody
- abbreviation for goodwife. used as we use the term Mrs.
- blacklist
- list of suspected communists in the entertainment and academic professions. those couldnt get work during the McCarthy era.
- subversive
- spy who operates from within to overthrow the system
- fanaticism
- obsessive devotion to one's system of beliefs
- purjury
- lying under oath
- theocracy
- government in which there is no seperation of church and civil authority.
- crucible
- container for refining precious metals in a furnice. The heat burns up the impurities. came to mean severe test or trial.
- conjure
- to summon spirits or cast spells (practice withccraft)
- exorcism
- religious right for casting out demons from a bewitched person.
- blasphemy
- irreverence or disrespect for religion (cursing)
- providence
- fate
- faction
- a group that breaks off from the main group.
- dissembling
- pretending, hiding ones true feelings or motivation.
- abomination
- something sinful or unclean, obsene practices
- calumny
- slander (talking trash)
- prodigious
- grand, huge in scope
- theology
- study of God and religion
- traffik
- having dealings with (did you traffik with the devil)