CONTENTS.

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The Place	[7]
The Salemite of Forty Years Ago	[8]
How the Subject was opened	[9]
Careful Historiography	[10]
The Actors in the Tragedy	[12]
Philosophy of the Delusion	[12]
Character of the Early Settlement	[13]
First Causes	[15]
Death of the Patriarch	[16]
Growth of Witchcraft	[17]
Trouble in the Church	[18]
Rev. Mr. Burroughs	[19]
Deodat Lawson	[20]
Parris—a Malignant	[20]
A Protean Devil	[21]
State of Physiology	[22]
William Penn as a Precedent	[22]
Phenomena of Witchcraft	[23]
Parris and his Circle	[25]
The Inquisitions—Sarah Good	[26]
A Child Witch	[27]
The Towne Sisters	[28]
Depositions of Parris and his Tools	[31]
Goody Nurse’s Excommunication	[35]
Mary Easty	[36]
Mrs. Cloyse	[38]
The Proctor Family	[40]
The Jacobs Family	[41]
Giles and Martha Corey	[42]
Decline of the Delusion	[44]
The Physio-Psychological Causes of the Trouble	[45]
The Last of Parris	[47]
“One of the Afflicted”—Her Confession	[49]
The Transition	[50]
The Fetish Theory Then and Now	[51]
The Views of Modern Investigators	[53]
Importance of the Subject	[55]

CONTENTS OF THE PLANCHETTE MYSTERY.

What Planchette is and does (with review of Facts and Phenomena)	[63]
The Press on Planchette (with further details of Phenomena)	[67]
Theory First—That the Board is moved by the hands that rest upon it	[70]
Theory Second—“It is Electricity or Magnetism”	[71]
Proof that Electricity has nothing to do with it	[78]
Theory Third—The Devil Theory	[79]
Theory of a Floating Ambient Mentality	[81]
“To Daimonion”—The Demon	[83]
“It is some principle of nature as yet unknown”	[85]
Theory of the Agency of Departed Spirits	[85]
Planchette’s own Theory	[89]
The Rational Difficulty	[92]
The Medium—The Doctrine of Spheres	[93]
The Moral and Religious Difficulty	[98]
What this Modern Development is, and what is to come of it	[102]
Conclusion	[105]
How to work Planchette	[106]

SPIRITUALISM.

DR. DODDRIDGE’S DREAM.