| The U.S. Congress, led by Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Committee on Un-American Activities, conducted witch-hunts in search of Communist sympathizers. |
| Their mutual devotion carried them through several witch-hunts, aroused both by their heretical views on marriage and Mary's newfound gifts as a medium and spiritual healer. |
| Kinsey's first major work on sexuality appeared during the first years of the Cold War, on the eve of the McCarthyite witch-hunts. |
| The tome documents historical cases when women were targeted for gendercide, including the practice of female infanticide, the witch-hunts in Europe, and war rapes. |
| Old women were the stereotypical victims of earlier witch-hunts, but this hunt focused on vagrants and beggars, mostly boys and young men. |
| Oster also studied modern African witch-hunts and found that most victims were older women. |
