If you’ve been paying any attention much at all to the news lately, you’ve probably noticed that the terms witch hunt and hoax are mentioned a lot.
For no good reason I decided to look up the word hoax. According to the dictionary, it means an act intended to trick or dupe — or — something accepted or established by fraud or fabrication.
Digging a little deeper, the word hoax is a shortening of “hocus-pocus,” a synonym for trickery that in turn comes from the Latin “hoc corpus est” — “This is my body” — the phrase spoken during the Mass when Catholics believe that the bread is transformed into the body of Christ.
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Very interesting!