#392 effigy

effigy- a portrait of a person, especially as a monument or architectural decoration; a crede representation of someone, used as a focus for contempt or ridicule and often hung up or burnt in public

C18 from Latin effigies from effingere to form, portray, from fingere to shape

To burn a puppet in effigy is an extreme political statement and violent act.

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