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Title: Salem Witchcraft, Volumes I and II
With an Account of Salem Village and a History of Opinions
on Witchcraft and Kindred Subjects

Author: Charles Upham

Release Date: February 24, 2006 [EBook #17845]

Language: English

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AMERICAN CLASSICS

SALEM WITCHCRAFT

_With an Account of Salem Village
and
A History of Opinions on
Witchcraft and Kindred Subjects_

CHARLES W. UPHAM

[Illustration: [autograph] Charles W. Upham.]

_Volume I_

FREDERICK UNGAR PUBLISHING CO.

_New York_

[Transcriber's Note: Originally published 1867]

_Fourth Printing, 1969_

_Printed in the United States of America_

Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 59-10887

[Illustration: THE TOWNSEND BISHOP HOUSE.--VOL. I., 70, 96;
VOL. II., 294, 467.]

DEDICATED

TO

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES,

PROFESSOR OF ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY IN

HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

CONTENTS.

VOLUME I.

PAGE

PREFACE vii to xiv

MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS xv to xvii

INDEX TO THE MAP xix to xxvii

GENERAL INDEX xxix to xl

INTRODUCTION 1 to 12

PART FIRST.--SALEM VILLAGE 12 to 322

PART SECOND.--WITCHCRAFT 325 to 469

VOLUME II.

PAGE

PART THIRD.--WITCHCRAFT AT SALEM VILLAGE 1 to 444

SUPPLEMENT 447 to 522

APPENDIX 525 to 553

PREFACE.

This work was originally constructed, and in previous editions
appeared, in the form of Lectures. The only vestiges of that form, in
its present shape, are certain modes of expression. The language
retains the character of an address by a speaker to his hearers; being
more familiar, direct, and personal than is ordinarily employed in the
relations of an author to a reader.

The former work was pr