Much of the conspiracist's writing will involve trying to analyse what strategies and what power the conspirators have to keep their sinister plan or their identity hidden.
Charles reacted with understandable concern and in the weeks that followed as investigations were launched and arrests made to identify the imaginary conspirators, anti-Catholic hysteria built across England.
The Gunpowder Plot in England in 1605 to get rid of the King of England, or the July 20th plot to kill Hitler in 1944, were taken seriously enough at the time.
The defining features of the conspiracy theory are: the conspirator, the conspiratorial plan — the sinister plan that they're trying to bring about — and the means of mass manipulation by which the conspirator is keeping the plan secret.
Indeed, this Fox, who was none other than the Wizard of Oz, had witnessed the transformation of the Goose and now decided he would keep watch on the conspirators and see what they would do next.