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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

DEFINE MASS HYSYERIA

  • Mass hysteria is multiple delusions of threats. Where a population in a society resulting in rumors and also fears.

EXAMPLES OF MASS HYSTERIA

  • Salem witch trials.
  • Satanic day care scandal.
  • The second red scare.

WHAT THEYRE ABOUT

  • The Salem witch trials were about colonist who believed satanism and a few young girls had "visions of the devil" messing with people they didn't like meaning people were tortured or burned.
  • The satanic day care scandal was like the witch trials only that some day care providers in the US around 1980s were accused of abusing children with satanic rituals
  • The second red scare was the rise of an alcoholic Senator Joesph McCarthy giving accusations that the U.S. Had been infiltrated by communist.l. Meaning everyone went into a huge panic and facism.