I first saw this spooky episode around the same time I was studying several religions and first realized the power...and dangers.... in unchallenged, unproven beliefs, from fables to cults to partisan politics to superstition to voodoo to some of the world's most followed religions, the latter dismissed by one nonbeliever as "virtue voodoo". What is the difference between one and the other?
One news story around that time mentioned a man who died from a heart attack brought on by fatal fear, from a powerful voodoo curse that literally scared the man to death, not unlike people who die in their sleep from a heart attack brought on by a terrifying nightmare.
Yet, the man was killed by fear of that voodoo curse only because he deeply believed in all that voodoo hoodoo. A non-believer would have scoffed and walked away unharmed. Insert your own current political/religion analogy here.
Also, consider that in this "Drums of Death" episode, Perry White's sister believed those paper loops were heavy chains because she was brainwashed by a voodoo priest, while Jimmy Olsen wasn't fooled. The voodoo priest, whose "power" was entirely a figment of his believers' imagination, was in fact a Wizard of Oz only while behind his impenetrable curtain, and was soon unmasked as an emperor with no clothes.
One who was dark brown, not orange.
Again...insert your own politics/religion analogy here.
