inbreeding

Are they Russian by way of the Ozarks?

He__l take from your mind the answer best suited to lead you on, to enthrall you. He__l weave a web of deceits so thick you won__ see the world through it. He wants your strength and he__l say what he must say to get it. Break the chain, child! You__e the strongest of them all! Break the chain and he__l go backto hell for he has no other place to go in all the wide world to find strength like yours. Don__ you see?He__ created it. Bred sister to brother, and uncle to niece, and son to mother, yes, that too, when he hadto do it, to make an ever more powerful witch, only faltering now and then, and gaining what he lost in one generation by even greater strength in the next. What was the cost of Antha and Deirdre if he could have a Rowan!

Social conditioning, accompanied by moral and mental constraints, now serve to render the mediocre mind nearly incapable of unbiased assessment.