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A forgotten witch hunt in New England

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How Do You Explain Dreams and Dreams of Demons?

In springfield, people are trying to present evidence of their own experience of the supernatural. The book is trying to find logic in a situation that has often been dismissed as superstition or hysteria and craziness. It doesn't seek to explain anything away by saying this was because of spsychosis - even though that's almost certaoinly what we would think to day. And historically, e i think we have to take them at face value. So they say, what happens? I think it's not just respectful to them too, to take their experiences seriously,. But i think it really helps us to understand the ways in which these rather dramatic experiences give them the kind of conviction they

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