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Last week's U.N. story starts, properly, with a bearded, 16th Century Frenchman called Jean Bodin, who believed in witchcraft, numerology, astronomy a"nd national sovereignty...
Almonds & Yearnings. As Boston grew and prospered, even the Puritans began to relax. The wily, pleasure-liking Judge Samuel Sewall, who had been one of the judges at the Salem witchcraft trials, arrived at a more tolerant vision of life, spent his last widower years wooing likely widows, and married three times. In his vivid diary, one of the best mirrors of the social life of his time, Judge Sewall noted his gifts to the Widow Denison: "K. Georges Effigies in Copper ... A pound of Raisins and Proportionate Almonds . . . A pair of Shoe Buckles cost five shillings three pence...
...Mainly a literary group"--that's what the anonymous horror-lovers insist they are. "Why, just yesterday we were reading one of the rarest books ever published on "witchcraft, an opus on black magic put out in 1613," declared one of the members, emitting a weird laugh as he thumbed a book of Charles Adams' cartoons...
...hero of Great Mischief is Timothy, a pharmacist in Charleston, S.C., who dabbles in witchcraft. When the shapely...
William Stoughton, Class of 1650, was a "prominent, wealthy, and unpopular" leader in Massachusetts life during the latter half of the seventeenth century. His grandiloquent sermons and the leading role he played in the witchcraft trials led a contemporary to describe him as a "pudding-faced, sanctimonious, and unfeeling witch-hanger...