Editor's Drawer
Anon
Genre: | Regular Feature, Anecdote, Drollery |
Subjects: | Superstition, Spiritualism, Supernaturalism |
Remarks ironically that the belief of the New England pilgrim fathers in 'witches and the like' is 'justly called superstitious by an age and a city [i.e. Boston] given over to spiritism, clairvoyance, mind cure, "materialization", and other certainties' (652). | |
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