HIST 3130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Public Service Announcement
1 Jun 2016
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The text seems to present a poverty-stricken family likely travellers or gypsies without the. The entire story suggests that rachel finds ways to slither into the lives of her victims by finding their weaknesses (i. e. searching for cures for their ailments, connecting with the supernatural, etc. ). Rachel commits crimes so easily and reinforces the public distaste for gypsies and travellers. The morals of society praise honest work; however, those who flourish from deviant activities are anomalies within society and frowned upon. I believe that the public would have viewed this as a public service announcement of sorts. The laws and regulations of society were based around the church and the bible; therefore, rachel would have been viewed as a deviant witch. I believe that it would have initially deterred criminal activity as the takeaway from the story is that giving your faith to a fortune teller causes you to act against god, which frightens people.
