Word: witchcrafts
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...heroine, man and wife, suddenly change personalities or bodies, whichever way you choose to look at it. What the biochemist husband has failed to do for certain lower organisms by monkeying around with chemicals changing their sex his Irsh maid odes for him and his wife by Macbethian witchcraft. And so one morning they wake up vice-versa...
...central pair have to get the maid's book of applied witchcraft to restore things to normalcy. They run into special trouble obtaining a yellow-bellied spider and in learning the Babylonian word for cockatoo. They ultimately succeed but with disastrous results for another couple present when the spell is cast...
...dean of the Jesuit University of Detroit, mediate Detroit's pandemonium of sit-down strikes was not the only thing which reminded observers of the medieval dance mania last week as they watched the U. S. Sit-Down epidemic of 1937 spread out across the land. From Salem witchcraft persecution to Ku Klux Klan, from Gold Rush of 1849 to Bull Market of 1929, the U. S. has shown itself no less subject than its sister nations to seizures of mass hysteria. The Sit-Down last week remained primarily a new and powerful weapon in the hands of Organized...
...hurt it. The press agents for "Maid of Salem" have made a reputation that the picture cannot live up to. Those who go because the previews attract them will be disappointed, the more's the pity because the show is a good one. It is not a study of witchcraft and bigotry in an isolated community nor is it a picture of life in Colonial New England. It is simply a good adventure story with clean, true love surmounting a series of exciting perils...
...plot of the story surrounds the cruel legalized murder of Briget Bishop and the accusations and attempts made on her daughter Mary. Born in a country where a woman might call her soul her own, and not be accused of witchcraft because she had certain marks on her body which every woman was not afflicted with, Briget fights her way through the terrors of a trial and an execution to preserve the reputation of her daughter and save her from a mad people who knew not what they...