The Salem Witchcraft, the Planchette Mystery, and Modern Spiritualism
By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Length5h 58m
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Excerpt: "The object in reprinting this most interesting review is simply to show the progress made in moral, intellectual, and physical science. The reader will go back with us to a time— not very remote — when nothing was known of Phrenology and Psychology; when men and women were persecuted, and even put to death, through the baldest ignorance and the most pitiable superstition. If we were to go back still farther, to the Holy Wars, we should find cities and nations drenched in human blood through religious bigotry and intolerance. Let us thank God that our lot is cast in a more fortunate age, when the light of revelation, rightly interpreted by the aid of science, points to the Source of all knowledge, all truth, all light. When we know more of Anatomy, Physiology, Physiognomy, and the Natural Sciences generally, there will be a spirit of broader liberality, religious tolerance, and individual freedom. Then all men will hold themselves accountable to God, rather than to popes, priests, or parsons. Our progenitors lived in a time that tried men's souls, as the following lucid review most painfully shows."
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GenreHorror, Literary Classics
Length5 hrs 58 mins
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Publish dateAug 30, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1INTRODUCTION.
31GILES AND MARTHA COREY.
2SALEM WITCHCRAFT.
32DECLINE OF THE DELUSION.
3THE PLACE.
33THE PHYSIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL CAUSES OF THE TROUBLE.
4THE SALEMITE OF FORTY YEARS AGO.
34THE LAST OF PARRIS.
5HOW THE SUBJECT WAS OPENED.
35“ONE OF THE AFFLICTED”—HER CONFESSION.
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6CAREFUL HISTORIOGRAPHY.
36THE TRANSITION.
7THE ACTORS IN THE TRAGEDY.
37THE FETISH THEORY THEN AND NOW.
8PHILOSOPHY OF THE DELUSION.
38THE VIEWS OF MODERN INVESTIGATORS.
9CHARACTER OF THE EARLY SETTLEMENT.
39IMPORTANCE OF THE SUBJECT.
10FIRST CAUSES.
40THE PLANCHETTE MYSTERY.
11DEATH OF THE PATRIARCH.
41WHAT PLANCHETTE IS AND DOES.
12GROWTH.
42THE PRESS ON PLANCHETTE.
13TROUBLE IN THE CHURCH.
43THEORY FIRST THAT THE BOARD IS MOVED BY THE HANDS THAT REST UPON IT.
14REV. MR. BURROUGHS.
44THEORY SECOND—IT IS ELECTRICITY, OR MAGNETISM.
15DEODAT LAWSON.
45ELECTRICITY HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT.
16PARRIS—A MALIGNANT.
46THIRD—THE DEVIL THEORY.
17A PROTEAN DEVIL.
47THEORY OF A FLOATING, AMBIENT MENTALITY.
18STATE OF PHYSIOLOGY.
48“TO DAIMONION” (THE DEMON).
19WILLIAM PENN AS A PRECEDENT.
49IT IS SOME PRINCIPLE OF NATURE AS YET UNKNOWN.
20PHENOMENA OF WITCHERY.
50THEORY OF THE AGENCY OF DEPARTED SPIRITS.
21PARRIS AND HIS “CIRCLE.”
51PLANCHETTE’S OWN THEORY.
22THE INQUISITIONS.—SARAH GOOD.
52THE RATIONAL DIFFICULTY.
23A CHILD WITCH.
53THE MEDIUM—THE DOCTRINE OF SPHERES.
24THE TOWNE SISTERS.
54THE MORAL AND RELIGIOUS DIFFICULTY.
25DEPOSITIONS OF PARRIS AND HIS TOOLS.
55WHAT THIS MODERN DEVELOPMENT IS, AND WHAT IS TO COME OF IT.
26GOODY NURSE’S EXCOMMUNICATION.
56CONCLUSION.
27MARY EASTY.
57HOW TO WORK PLANCHETTE.
28MRS. CLOYSE.
58SPIRITUALISM.: “THE COMMUNION OF SAINTS.”
29THE PROCTOR FAMILY.
59DR. DODDRIDGE’S DREAM
30THE JACOBS FAMILY.
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