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...Salem was raging. The Court of Oyer and Terminer, convened in 1692, convicted 19 people of witchcraft, and hung them. Much of the incriminating testimony came from a group of young girls who claimed to have been possessed by the devil...

Author: By Jennifer L. Hanson, | Title: Memory, Testimony and Justice | 12/3/1993 | See Source »

...many critics of the recovered-memory movement, the accusations and convictions are reminiscent of the 17th century Salem witchcraft trials, in which elderly women and an occasional man were condemned to death, often on the basis of a single unsubstantiated charge that they had demonstrated witchlike behavior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Repressed-Memory Therapy: Lies of the Mind | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

...blend of music and motion. The weirdly soothing, polylingual background score, which could be elevator music at a harmonious U.N., rolls out a verdant carpet of sound for all the pretty beasts to strut on. At every moment, in every corner of the Cirque world, stagecraft approaches genial witchcraft. It's an out-of-Broadway experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Le Cirque Fantastique | 4/19/1993 | See Source »

Ireland derided the old-fashioned, "Pat Robertson version of feminism," which she said branded feminists as those who "leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians...

Author: By Gaston DE Los reyes, | Title: Ireland Speaks at K-School | 4/14/1993 | See Source »

...that leaves the celebrators sick or spellbound. When Pedro dares to give her a bouquet of roses, she presses them ecstatically to her chest -- the scratches are as close as she can get to Pedro's caresses -- and then prepares a heady quail with rose-petal sauce. Her culinary witchcraft will affect many births, marriages and deaths. But they will not stanch her tears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kitchen Magician | 4/5/1993 | See Source »

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