Transcriber’s Note
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AN ESSAY
ON
DEMONOLOGY, GHOSTS AND APPARITIONS,
AND
POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS,
ALSO,
AN ACCOUNT
OF THE
WITCHCRAFT DELUSION AT SALEM,
IN 1682.
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By JAMES THACHER, M. D., A. A. S.
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‘With spells and charms I break the viper’s jaw,
Cleave solid rocks, oaks from their fissures draw,
Whole woods remove, the airy mountains shake,
Earth forced to groan, and ghosts from graves awake.’
Ovid’s Metamor.
There are mysteries even in nature, which we cannot investigate, paradoxes which we can never resolve.