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...thrashing from her master, Tituba quickly confessed to witchcraft and spun a richly embroidered tale that held Salem spellbound. Red cats and red rats had come to her one by one and said, "Serve me." Though as an earthly creature she could not read, she had in her spectral phase seen nine Salem names in the devil's book...
...hysteria spread through Massachusetts. Young girls lived in dread of a spectral rape by the devil and of giving birth to a demon child, while young men (and older) were haunted by the "shapes" of comely matrons who at midnight dropped down from a beam and snuggled close. The devil worked overtime; he was described by one hysteric as "a short and black man-a Wretch no taller than an ordinary Walking Staff ... he wore a high crowned hat with straight hair; and he had one Cloven Foot." Another accuser casually referred...
...Recessional. As 400 million Indians (one-fifth of mankind) became self-governing, the British recessional was well begun. From lonely outposts in Kashmir, looking nervously north to the Russian border, from lush Assam where tea bushes grow in the spectral sau trees' shade, from residences deep in central India's jungles, from gay and airy Bangalore, more than 60,000 Britons had served notice that they were leaving the land which had been Britain's treasure and shame, her pride and her increasing care...
...house lights come up, and above the hubbub in the aisles one can hear a spectral voice pronounced in awe-filled tones, "The overture...Duel in the Sun..." And thus begins David O. Selznick's nine-million dollar horse opera. Of this pile of cash a very substantial share has been invested in what has been perhaps the most immense hoopla campaign since Thomas A. Edison invented the motion picture. Such an unparalelled barrage of publicity has been such a long stretch of time that quite a sizable fraction of the population already is intent upon seeing the picture...
...years passed, legends sprang up about the spectral old house. The most persistent: it hid a fortune. But nobody but a policeman and crew from the gas company had ever got inside, and they had seen little. Burglars, who had tried, had backed out after setting off booby traps which deluged them with garbage...