Keith MacKinnon

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It was no unusual thing then, nor is it now, that in aged persons there should be some spot on the body totally devoid of feeling. It was the object of the witchpricker to discover this spot, and the unhappy wight who did not bleed when pricked upon it, was doomed to the death.
Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds
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