An Essay on Demonology, Ghosts and Apparitions, and Popular Superstitions Also, an Account

Thacher, James
97 pages · Witch-Craft · free to read
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AN ESSAY ON DEMONOLOGY, GHOSTS AND APPARITIONS, AND POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS, ALSO, AN ACCOUNT OF THE WITCHCRAFT DELUSION AT SALEM, IN 1682. By JAMES THACHER, M. D., A. A. S. 'With spells and charms I break the viper's jaw, Cleave solid rocks, oaks from their fissures draw, Whole woods remove, the airy mountains shake, Earth forced to groan, and ghosts from graves awake.' Ovid's Metamor. There are mysteries even in nature, which we cannot investigate, paradoxes which we can never resolve. BOSTON: CARTER AND HENDEE. M DCCC XXXI. ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1831, by CARTER & HENDEE, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. BOSTON CLASSIC PRESS. I. R. BU…

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