Plot · INWO: Assassins
Witch Hunt
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Description
A Plot card that lets a player whip up public hysteria against a target group, punishing it on the basis of accusation rather than proof.
Conspiracy Narrative
References the real Salem witch trials of 1692-93, in which mass hysteria and flimsy accusations led to the execution of twenty people in colonial Massachusetts -- the historical origin of 'witch hunt' as a byword for persecution based on paranoia rather than evidence.