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Muensterberger discusses the affective experience of intimidation of the spectator who meets a person wearing a "false face." He employs field research, clinical data, and child observation to back his assertion that an experience of acute disorientation, folie du doute, occurs when encountering a masker. Data from tribal traditions and legends, field observation in Bali, and observation of Western children suggest the connection between reactions to masking and stranger anxiety in infancy.