Word: witchcrafts
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...predicted by the late Charles Fort, when the years B. C. and A. D., lumped together, will be referred to as the period B. W. (Before Witchcraft), professors of the new regime will, like the ancient alchemists, need paraphernalia to advertise their trade. Post-Einsteinian runes will decorate their doors, philosopher's stones, alembics, superhuman skeletons their cells. From their ceilings (relatively) will hang dried four-dimen-sional alligators-their entrails furnished by alligator-stuffers like Author Fort. Some fine wads of his superior stuffing are to be found in this book...
...works have included writings on English and Scottish Ballads, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Witchcraft in Old and New England, the Old Farmer and his Almanack, and many others, ranging through all periods of the language. He is a corresponding fellow of the British Academy, and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society for Literature, as well as being the recipient of many signal honors in this country...
...only a few hundred copies. Subsequent plays and novels got high praise, but sales stayed low. Now all Scandinavia is reading Two Living and One Dead. Flawless in outline, crystal-clear as a Norwegian icicle, it deals with psychological subtleties at high tension with almost miraculous precision, without any witchcraft other than an immaculate literary conscience and a knifelike style...
...Gower Lackland. While Wrestling is wrestling with his soul, Sir Gower and his sinful kind are having one of their maypole dances on Merry Mount. Later Sir Gower is killed outright by a Puritan. The village is attacked by Indians and the love-distracted Wrestling accuses Lady Marigold of witchcraft. As she is about to be burned he picks her up in his arms, strides into the flames with her. In the Metropolitan's production the feat will not be difficult if, as now seems probable, big Lawrence Tibbett is Wrestling and chic Lucrezia Bori plays Lady Marigold...
...portrayal of the founding of the earliest settlements, shows the clearing of the land, the household life of the time, and contrasts this with the life of the Indians. Each century is taken up in detail, and from many points of view. The religious difficulties, the alarms of witchcraft, the role played by the sea in the life of New England, the struggle with the soil dominate the reels on the seventeenth century...