The Salem Witchcraft, the Planchette Mystery, and Modern Spiritualism
The Salem Witchcraft, the Planchette Mystery, and Modern Spiritualism
By Harriet Beecher Stowe
9 Jan, 2020
Brief Extract: The name of the village of Salem is as familiar to Americans as that of any provincial town in England or France is to Englishmen and Frenchmen; yet, when uttered in the hearing of Europeans, it carries us back two or three centuries a
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Brief Extract: The name of the village of Salem is as familiar to Americans as that of any provincial town in England or France is to Englishmen and Frenchmen; yet, when uttered in the hearing of Europeans, it carries us back two or three centuries and suggests an image, however faint and transient, of the life of the Pilgrim Fathers, who gave that sacred name to the place of their chosen habitation. If we were on the spot today, we should see a modern American seaport, with an interest of its own, but by no means a romantic one. Less