American Witches Quotes

“Your esteemed pig ancestors, having survived a heroic voyage across the ocean, had probably arrived in America about the same time as your owner’s ancestors in the early 1600s, making you, whether pilgrim or Puritan, a very notable pig indeed. A founding pig, if you will.”
― Susan Fair, American Witches: A Broomstick Tour through Four Centuries

“We’ll join the trial already in progress; Bridget has just been asked by Judge Hathorne to talk about how she bewitched the girls of Salem: Bridget: I know nothing of it. I am innocent to a Witch. I know not what a Witch is. Hathorne: How do you know then that you are not a Witch? On June 10, 1692, Bridget Bishop became the first person to be hanged for witchcraft in Salem.”
― Susan Fair, American Witches: A Broomstick Tour through Four Centuries

“Between all the witch lit and the relentless misfortunes he and New England seemed to be experiencing, Cotton came to the reasonable conclusion that the devil totally had it in for the tender new country;”
― Susan Fair, American Witches: A Broomstick Tour through Four Centuries

“You’ll be happy to know that in America, the devil is an equal-opportunity employer.”
― Susan Fair, American Witches: A Broomstick Tour Through Four Centuries

“She even had a name for this: malicious animal magnetism, or M.A.M. It was something Quimby had warned could happen. According to Mary, malicious animal magnetism consisted of transmitting malign thoughts in order to cause harm to another person.”
― Susan Fair, American Witches: A Broomstick Tour through Four Centuries

“Whatever you believe is what you create,” Quimby would tell patients. (It was an early sort of law-of-attraction/vision-board type thing.) “Quimbyism” would be a prototype for the next century’s New Age movement. It was at this point in his career that Quimby awarded himself an honorary doctorate, just to make everything official.”
― Susan Fair, American Witches: A Broomstick Tour Through Four Centuries