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  1. Stacy Schiff _ The Witches: Salem, 1692

    Cotton Mather believed sixty drops of lavender and a mouthful of gingerbread cured memory loss."
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  2. Stacy Schiff _ The Witches: Salem, 1692

    Our appetite for the miraculous endures; we continue to want there to be something beyond our ken. We hope to locate the secret powers we didn't know we had, like the ruby slippers Dorothy finds on her feet and that Glinda has to tell her how to work. Where women are concerned, it is preferable that those powers manifest only when crisis strikes; the best heroine is the accidental one.
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  3. Stacy Schiff _ The Witches: Salem, 1692

    Things disturb us in the night. Sometimes they are our consciences. Sometimes they are our secrets. Sometimes they are our fears, translated from one idiom to another. Often what pinches and pricks, gnaws, claws, stabs, and suffocates, like a seventeenth-century witch, is the irritatingly unsolved puzzle in the next room. The
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  4. Stacy Schiff _ The Witches: Salem, 1692

    We all subscribe to preposterous beliefs; we just don't know yet which ones they are. We
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  5. Stacy Schiff _ The Witches: Salem, 1692

    He was the type of person who believed he alone could do the job adequately and afterward complained that no one had helped.
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  6. Stacy Schiff _ The Witches: Salem, 1692

    Only a small, supernatural figure remained at the scene of the crime.* He did resolve one mystery while in Salem: indeed the devil needs conscious human collusion to work evil.
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  7. Stacy Schiff _ The Witches: Salem, 1692

    We have believed in any number of things - the tooth fairy, cold fusion, and benefits of smoking, the free lunch - that turn out not to exist. We all subscribe to preposterous beliefs; we just don't know yet which ones they are.
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  8. Stacy Schiff _ The Witches: Salem, 1692

    Witchcraft tied up loose ends, accounting for the arbitrary, the eerie, and the unneighborly.
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  9. Stacy Schiff _ The Witches: Salem, 1692

    published, Beverly minister John Hale had produced
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  10. Stacy Schiff _ The Witches: Salem, 1692

    You could not really bargain away your soul before it was established that you had one.
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  11. Stacy Schiff _ The Witches: Salem, 1692

    At a time of shuddering devastation, they stepped in as the dragon-slayers.
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  12. Stacy Schiff _ The Witches: Salem, 1692

    Like any oppressed people, they defined themselves by what offended them, which
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