The Salem Witchcraft, the Planchette Mystery, and Modern Spiritualism
By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Length5h 58m
About this audiobook
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
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 30, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1INTRODUCTION.
2SALEM WITCHCRAFT.
3THE PLACE.
4THE SALEMITE OF FORTY YEARS AGO.
5HOW THE SUBJECT WAS OPENED.
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6CAREFUL HISTORIOGRAPHY.
7THE ACTORS IN THE TRAGEDY.
8PHILOSOPHY OF THE DELUSION.
9CHARACTER OF THE EARLY SETTLEMENT.
10FIRST CAUSES.
11DEATH OF THE PATRIARCH.
12GROWTH.
13TROUBLE IN THE CHURCH.
14REV. MR. BURROUGHS.
15DEODAT LAWSON.
16PARRIS—A MALIGNANT.
17A PROTEAN DEVIL.
18STATE OF PHYSIOLOGY.
19WILLIAM PENN AS A PRECEDENT.
20PHENOMENA OF WITCHERY.
21PARRIS AND HIS “CIRCLE.”
22THE INQUISITIONS.—SARAH GOOD.
23A CHILD WITCH.
24THE TOWNE SISTERS.
25DEPOSITIONS OF PARRIS AND HIS TOOLS.
26GOODY NURSE’S EXCOMMUNICATION.
27MARY EASTY.
28MRS. CLOYSE.
29THE PROCTOR FAMILY.
30THE JACOBS FAMILY.
31GILES AND MARTHA COREY.
32DECLINE OF THE DELUSION.
33THE PHYSIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL CAUSES OF THE TROUBLE.
34THE LAST OF PARRIS.
35“ONE OF THE AFFLICTED”—HER CONFESSION.
36THE TRANSITION.
37THE FETISH THEORY THEN AND NOW.
38THE VIEWS OF MODERN INVESTIGATORS.
39IMPORTANCE OF THE SUBJECT.
40THE PLANCHETTE MYSTERY.
41WHAT PLANCHETTE IS AND DOES.
42THE PRESS ON PLANCHETTE.
43THEORY FIRST THAT THE BOARD IS MOVED BY THE HANDS THAT REST UPON IT.
44THEORY SECOND—IT IS ELECTRICITY, OR MAGNETISM.
45ELECTRICITY HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT.
46THIRD—THE DEVIL THEORY.
47THEORY OF A FLOATING, AMBIENT MENTALITY.
48“TO DAIMONION” (THE DEMON).
49IT IS SOME PRINCIPLE OF NATURE AS YET UNKNOWN.
50THEORY OF THE AGENCY OF DEPARTED SPIRITS.
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