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The Salem Witchcraft, the Planchette Mystery, and Modern Spiritualism

By Harriet Beecher Stowe

2020-01-09 20:48:01

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 ... Read more
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

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File size266.877 KB
Print pages142
PublisherPublic Domain Book
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1371104696
Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe was an American author and abolitionist, whose novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) attacked the cruelty of slavery; it reached millions as a novel and play, and became influ...

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