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Fantasy Fiction Telegram, v. 1, issue 3, December 1936
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WEIRD WHISPERINGS (title over illustration of bat flying near a full moon) By CHARLES H. BE. [RT?] THE WITCHCRAFT CRAZE Did you know that after the year 1484, over nine million persons were put to death for witchcraft? Ther fanatical judges affirmed the reality of witchcraft, and on this assumption punished their fellow-men. In America belief in witchcraft reached its greatest peak in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. Innocent men and women were burned and hanged to death, their lives [avored?] away by hysterical children. Cotton Mather believed that "a witch shall not suffer to live," and did his best, with the help of afflicted children and his misguided followers to exterminate their breed. Giles and Martha Corey were thrown in jail to await execution; Rebecca Nurse, Saint of Salem, sentenced to hang; George Burroughs, once a pastor of Salem, stated in public that belied in witchcraft was superstitutious nonsense and miserably parished by the hangman's rope. In Germany, the burning of witches was a remarkable feature of the Reformation, and became a regular practice in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. J. Springer, a fanatical Dominican priest, is first accused of [illegible] this fearful superstition.
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WEIRD WHISPERINGS (title over illustration of bat flying near a full moon) By CHARLES H. BE. [RT?] THE WITCHCRAFT CRAZE Did you know that after the year 1484, over nine million persons were put to death for witchcraft? Ther fanatical judges affirmed the reality of witchcraft, and on this assumption punished their fellow-men. In America belief in witchcraft reached its greatest peak in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. Innocent men and women were burned and hanged to death, their lives [avored?] away by hysterical children. Cotton Mather believed that "a witch shall not suffer to live," and did his best, with the help of afflicted children and his misguided followers to exterminate their breed. Giles and Martha Corey were thrown in jail to await execution; Rebecca Nurse, Saint of Salem, sentenced to hang; George Burroughs, once a pastor of Salem, stated in public that belied in witchcraft was superstitutious nonsense and miserably parished by the hangman's rope. In Germany, the burning of witches was a remarkable feature of the Reformation, and became a regular practice in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. J. Springer, a fanatical Dominican priest, is first accused of [illegible] this fearful superstition.
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