witch-trial

Hawthorne scholars, who fill American Transcendental Quarterly with papers on topics like "Covenant Theology and Arthur Dimmesdale's Pelagianism," will probably point out that the movie's witch-trial subplot wasn't in the book.

Hester Prynncesse 2008

The witch-trial hysteria of the past two incendiary weeks unfortunately reveals a disturbing trend in the Democratic Party, which has worsened over the past decade.

And the McCain campaign is not giving Obama a pass on the Lipsticked Pig remark. Ann Althouse 2008

In witch-trial ordeals, if you drowned, you were innocent after all.

The Spitting of Spitzer 2008

He did not create a dysfunctional witch-trial work environment.

Mayor Blames School Board Chair at cvillenews.com 2005

There are still a few posters here who either got caught up in the Salem witch-trial mentality* or who need only the slightest excuse to show their ugly attitudes towards Muslims who have lost the presumptive respect I try to give everyone.

inshallah shalom 2006

Activity: Visit Burying Point, the oldest cemetery in the city, which contains graves of witch-trial judges and Mayflower pilgrims.

Fall Weekend Getaway Guide ©... 2006

The earliest witch-trial in the British Isles shows animal sacrifice.

The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913

It might be merely a fancy of the sick boy, but if not, was there not a witch-trial he had read, in which some grim little rite of sacrifice had played a part?

A Thin Ghost and Others 1899

Another novel of the Salem witch-trial era, it follows a young girl and her brother who flee into the wilderness and are captured by American Indians.

The Seattle Times 2010

They are potentially all false confessions, in the same sense that witch-trial and Gestapo-headquarters confessions are false, and we are no nearer to discovering who was responsible for 9 / 11 and why, than we were on the evening of that terrible day.

unknown title 2009