The word would go by newspaper or boat tales. Or by soldiers telling. Or bystanders gossip.
The answer is Moral Panic
Also called 'Public Fear', it is described as a collective Public anxiety or a feeling of threat towards a particular situation which they believe can completely destroy the society they live in.
In history, there has been several cases of Moral Panic starting from early times when e.g. the Japanese saw foreigners as a threat or when so-called witches were burned in Europe.
Recent moral panic examples include the threat of Communism, HIV as a 'gay' disease and the threat of Global warming.
In history, many governments have created 'Moral Panic' as a propaganda tool in wars and to deviate public perception.
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Little Albert is a classical study of human conditioning,
ethical or not, whose results were published in 1920. The results state that little
Albert developed a striking fear of fluffy white things. The experiment was significant
because it provided empirical evidence that demonstrated what is called the
classic conditioning in humans.
