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The Witchcraft Delusion in New England: Its Rise, Progress, and Termination, (Vol. 1 of 3)

Chapter 18

X. _Scratching of the suspected party, and Recovery thereupon,

with several other such weak Proofs; as also, the fleeting of the suspected Party, thrown upon the Water; these Proofs are so far from being sufficient, that some of them are, after a sort, practices of Witchcraft._