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Rose
is on page 391 of 498
“Hysteria is contagious and attention addictive; wanton self-abuse comes naturally to a teenager.”
This book is offering the best most plausible explanation for the Salem “bewitchings” I’ve ever read. No they didn’t have fungus in their grain or whatever, a bunch of teenagers wanted attention and to get out of doing work and it got really out of hand from there
— Jan 29, 2026 01:13AM
This book is offering the best most plausible explanation for the Salem “bewitchings” I’ve ever read. No they didn’t have fungus in their grain or whatever, a bunch of teenagers wanted attention and to get out of doing work and it got really out of hand from there
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Rose
is on page 414 of 498
Okay was anybody going to tell me that Walt Disney was a descendant of George Burroughs, the only minister executed for witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials, or was I just supposed to read that in this book myself???
— Jan 30, 2026 12:42AM
Rose
is on page 393 of 498
“The question is not why they retailed preposterous stories but why in 1692 they were believed; it is easier to understand their real or artificial visions than the vertiginous tales of everyone else. (‘Indeed,’ notes a modern psychiatrist, ‘a sane adolescent would have something wrong with her.’)”
— Jan 29, 2026 01:19AM
Rose
is on page 388 of 498
“the devout tend to glimpse the devil more frequently. Possession rarely occurs in the absence of intense piety.”
Funny, that 🤔
— Jan 29, 2026 01:04AM
Funny, that 🤔
