#42973 - In fact, the play's content, whatever it was—because today we have only fragments from which we can formulate guesses about the material—was so shocking that it was considered downright evil. People became scared, and serious questions about play were asked for the first time: Was it mass hysteria? The power of suggestion? Were already psychologically-fragile people drawn to the text because of its reputation and then acting out on it? Or could it be that the governments of 19th century Europe hadn't suppressed the play because it offended them, but because they knew what it could do? No sane person was willingly reading or distributing it at all now, but those who had read it already would not stop trying to spread the gospel. At least one of the detectives must have read it during the investigation.