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If A in this particular area was suspected of being a witch it wouldn't help to say you know the thing was reported last week or so.  This particular family might alone been identified with witchcraft but this time the climate was right to deal with such things.  Then a member of this particular family may tell some ...(indistinct) boys, heh look, why do you spare her.  She has killed so many people.  Then the youth will assemble at a certain place, attacking the so-called witches, but otherwise in the past, witchcraft was too adult for kids.