Meanings (ES + gloss)
caza de brujas
A search for people believed to be using sorcery or harmful magic, typically in order to persecute or punish them.
The rupturing of British rule over India in the rebellion of 1857 permitted a great witch-hunt, with lethal effects, to occur among the tribes of northern India.
To-night ye will see. It is the great witch-hunt, and many will be smelt out as wizards and slain.
caza de brujas
A public or political campaign or investigation which smears a person or group.
Even fewer people could believe that the UNCW administration would actually undertake a witch hunt against me, even going so far as to invoke their right to read my personal e-mail…
I defended myself vigorously on that complaint as well; also mentioning that Julie Ann Wilks had always disliked me and had been conducting “a witch hunt” against me. As soon as I…
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