The Salem Witchcraft, The Planchette Mystery, and Modern Spiritualism, with Dr. Doddridge’s Dream
by Samuel R. Wells
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About this eBook
- Author
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
- Title
- The Salem Witchcraft, the Planchette Mystery, and Modern Spiritualism With Dr. Doddridge's Dream
- Credits
- Produced by eagkw, Suzanne Shell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- BF: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Psychology, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis
- Subject
- Witchcraft -- Massachusetts -- Salem
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 42318
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42318
- Release Date
- March 12, 2013
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE SALEM WITCHCRAFT , The Planchette Mystery , AND MODERN SPIRITUALISM , WITH Dr. DODDRIDGE’S DREAM.
- 2.INTRODUCTION.
- 3.CONTENTS.
- 4.SALEM WITCHCRAFT. — THE PLACE. — THE SALEMITE OF FORTY YEARS AGO. — HOW THE SUBJECT WAS OPENED. — CAREFUL HISTORIOGRAPHY. — THE ACTORS IN THE TRAGEDY. — PHILOSOPHY OF THE DELUSION. — CHARACTER OF THE EARLY SETTLEMENT. — FIRST CAUSES. — DEATH OF THE PATRIARCH. — GROWTH. — TROUBLE IN THE CHURCH. — REV. MR. BURROUGHS. — DEODAT LAWSON. — PARRIS—A MALIGNANT. — A PROTEAN DEVIL. — STATE OF PHYSIOLOGY. — WILLIAM PENN AS A PRECEDENT. — PHENOMENA OF WITCHERY. — PARRIS AND HIS “CIRCLE.” — THE INQUISITIONS.—SARAH GOOD. — A CHILD WITCH. — THE TOWNE SISTERS. — DEPOSITIONS OF PARRIS AND HIS TOOLS. — GOODY NURSE’S EXCOMMUNICATION. — MARY EASTY. — MRS. CLOYSE. — THE PROCTOR FAMILY. — THE JACOBS FAMILY. — GILES AND MARTHA COREY. — DECLINE OF THE DELUSION. — THE PHYSIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL CAUSES OF THE TROUBLE. — THE LAST OF PARRIS. — “ONE OF THE AFFLICTED”—HER CONFESSION. — THE TRANSITION. — THE FETISH THEORY THEN AND NOW. — THE VIEWS OF MODERN INVESTIGATORS. — IMPORTANCE OF THE SUBJECT.
- 5.THE PLANCHETTE MYSTERY. — WHAT PLANCHETTE IS AND DOES. — THE PRESS ON PLANCHETTE. — THEORY FIRST—THAT THE BOARD IS MOVED BY THE HANDS THAT REST UPON IT. — THEORY SECOND—IT IS ELECTRICITY, OR MAGNETISM. — ELECTRICITY HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. — THIRD—THE DEVIL THEORY. — THEORY OF A FLOATING, AMBIENT MENTALITY. — “TO DAIMONION” (THE DEMON). — IT IS SOME PRINCIPLE OF NATURE AS YET UNKNOWN. — THEORY OF THE AGENCY OF DEPARTED SPIRITS. — PLANCHETTE’S OWN THEORY. — THE RATIONAL DIFFICULTY. — THE MEDIUM—THE DOCTRINE OF SPHERES. — THE MORAL AND RELIGIOUS DIFFICULTY. — WHAT THIS MODERN DEVELOPMENT IS, AND WHAT IS TO COME OF IT. — CONCLUSION. — HOW TO WORK PLANCHETTE.
- 6.SPIRITUALISM. — “THE COMMUNION OF SAINTS.”
- 7.DR. DODDRIDGE’S DREAM
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