When your neighbour gets jealous because your bonfire is massive so they try to make one too but it fails
Neighbour: oh wow look at their bonfire it's huge! I need to make one now!
Me: lol too bad your bonfire is gonna be shit!
Neighbour: damn it now I have bonfire envy
If perception is that you are belonging to a group that is targeted and harmed, regardless of your true state of being
Though we now know they werent a witch, the perception of the time was that they were of witches. By the bonfirestandard, they were equally likely to harmed as if they truly were a witch.
An old saying used when things aren’t going your way, but you’re resigned to going with the flow.
“When I was younger and confronted with hardship, my grandpa used to tell me, he said, ‘Sometimes you’ve gotta put the broom in the bonfire.’ He was right.”