Published by Good Press, 2021

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Table of Contents

       INTRODUCTION.

       SALEM WITCHCRAFT.

       THE PLACE.

       THE SALEMITE OF FORTY YEARS AGO.

       HOW THE SUBJECT WAS OPENED.

       CAREFUL HISTORIOGRAPHY.

       THE ACTORS IN THE TRAGEDY.

       PHILOSOPHY OF THE DELUSION.

       CHARACTER OF THE EARLY SETTLEMENT.

       FIRST CAUSES.

       DEATH OF THE PATRIARCH.

       GROWTH.

       TROUBLE IN THE CHURCH.

       REV. MR. BURROUGHS.

       DEODAT LAWSON.

       PARRIS—A MALIGNANT.

       A PROTEAN DEVIL.

       STATE OF PHYSIOLOGY.

       WILLIAM PENN AS A PRECEDENT.

       PHENOMENA OF WITCHERY.

       PARRIS AND HIS “CIRCLE.”

       THE INQUISITIONS.—SARAH GOOD.

       A CHILD WITCH.

       THE TOWNE SISTERS.

       DEPOSITIONS OF PARRIS AND HIS TOOLS.

       GOODY NURSE’S EXCOMMUNICATION.

       MARY EASTY.

       MRS. CLOYSE.

       THE PROCTOR FAMILY.

       THE JACOBS FAMILY.

       GILES AND MARTHA COREY.

       DECLINE OF THE DELUSION.

       THE PHYSIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL CAUSES OF THE TROUBLE.

       THE LAST OF PARRIS.

       “ONE OF THE AFFLICTED”—HER CONFESSION.

       THE TRANSITION.

       THE FETISH THEORY THEN AND NOW.

       THE VIEWS OF MODERN INVESTIGATORS.

       IMPORTANCE OF THE SUBJECT.

       THE PLANCHETTE MYSTERY.

       WHAT PLANCHETTE IS AND DOES.

       THE PRESS ON PLANCHETTE.

       THEORY FIRST—THAT THE BOARD IS MOVED BY THE HANDS THAT REST UPON IT.

       THEORY SECOND—IT IS ELECTRICITY, OR MAGNETISM.

       ELECTRICITY HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT.

       THIRD—THE DEVIL THEORY.

       THEORY OF A FLOATING, AMBIENT MENTALITY.

       “TO DAIMONION” (THE DEMON) .

       IT IS SOME PRINCIPLE OF NATURE AS YET UNKNOWN.

       THEORY OF THE AGENCY OF DEPARTED SPIRITS.

       PLANCHETTE’S OWN THEORY.

       THE