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Beauty seeks attention. Intelligence commands it.
Circassian
It is a witch’s greatest triumph to lure God’s daughters away from family, hearth, and home.
HOW does she do it? By touting intelligence over righteousness, books of black magic over the Bible, superstition over faith, fashion over modesty, politics over prayer. Crafty in her dealings, she takes on many forms—the healer, the fortune-teller, the academic, the suffragist, the spiritualist—all in an effort to lead others astray.
Skull by jaw by rib by spine, they were nestled tight as cordwood in a maze of paupers’ pits that stretched out from below the building, under the streets of Madison Square, and beneath the walkways of its pleasant, manicured park. Time and progress had caused these unfortunate souls to be forgotten, but their restless echoes had lived on, rising up through the cobblestones and pavers, serving as ghostly ether, provoking fear and dark thoughts. This is what happens when the dead don’t get their due. This is what happens when the past is ignored.
alienists
IMPORTER AND MAKER OF PHILOSOPHICAL INSTRUMENTS SINCE 1834.
Like her, Brody was intensely interested in what remained after someone (or something) had been lost. If a phantom of his arm remained after his limb was taken, it stood to reason that a shadowy figure of a whole person might be left behind after death. If he could sense his missing arm, then why wasn’t it possible for Mrs. Dashley to sense the presence of beings who’d passed?
Order of the Unknown Philosophers, who had a question for every answer.
Professor Robert Hare, Experimental Investigation of the Spirit Manifestations
America Bewitched: The Story of Witchcraft After Salem
