The Salem Witchcraft, the Planchette Mystery, and Modern Spiritualism / With Dr. Doddridge's Dream
by Harriet Beecher Stowe Samuel R. Wells
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- THE SALEM WITCHCRAFT, The Planchette Mystery, AND MODERN SPIRITUALISM, WITH Dr. DODDRIDGE’S DREAM.
- INTRODUCTION.
- CONTENTS.
- SALEM WITCHCRAFT.
- THE PLACE.
- THE SALEMITE OF FORTY YEARS AGO.
- HOW THE SUBJECT WAS OPENED.
- CAREFUL HISTORIOGRAPHY.
- THE ACTORS IN THE TRAGEDY.
- PHILOSOPHY OF THE DELUSION.
- CHARACTER OF THE EARLY SETTLEMENT.
- FIRST CAUSES.
- DEATH OF THE PATRIARCH.
- GROWTH.
- TROUBLE IN THE CHURCH.
- REV. MR. BURROUGHS.
- DEODAT LAWSON.
- PARRIS—A MALIGNANT.
- A PROTEAN DEVIL.
- STATE OF PHYSIOLOGY.
- WILLIAM PENN AS A PRECEDENT.
- PHENOMENA OF WITCHERY.
- PARRIS AND HIS “CIRCLE.”
- THE INQUISITIONS.—SARAH GOOD.
- A CHILD WITCH.
- THE TOWNE SISTERS.
- DEPOSITIONS OF PARRIS AND HIS TOOLS.
- GOODY NURSE’S EXCOMMUNICATION.
- MARY EASTY.
- MRS. CLOYSE.
- THE PROCTOR FAMILY.
- THE JACOBS FAMILY.
- GILES AND MARTHA COREY.
- DECLINE OF THE DELUSION.
- THE PHYSIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL CAUSES OF THE TROUBLE.
- THE LAST OF PARRIS.
- “ONE OF THE AFFLICTED”—HER CONFESSION.
- THE TRANSITION.
- THE FETISH THEORY THEN AND NOW.
- THE VIEWS OF MODERN INVESTIGATORS.
- IMPORTANCE OF THE SUBJECT.
- THE PLANCHETTE MYSTERY.
- WHAT PLANCHETTE IS AND DOES.
- THE PRESS ON PLANCHETTE.
- THEORY FIRST—THAT THE BOARD IS MOVED BY THE HANDS THAT REST UPON IT.
- THEORY SECOND—IT IS ELECTRICITY, OR MAGNETISM.
- ELECTRICITY HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT.
- THIRD—THE DEVIL THEORY.
- THEORY OF A FLOATING, AMBIENT MENTALITY.
- “TO DAIMONION” (THE DEMON).
- IT IS SOME PRINCIPLE OF NATURE AS YET UNKNOWN.
- THEORY OF THE AGENCY OF DEPARTED SPIRITS.
- PLANCHETTE’S OWN THEORY.
- THE RATIONAL DIFFICULTY.
- THE MEDIUM—THE DOCTRINE OF SPHERES.
- THE MORAL AND RELIGIOUS DIFFICULTY.
- WHAT THIS MODERN DEVELOPMENT IS, AND WHAT IS TO COME OF IT.
- CONCLUSION.
- HOW TO WORK PLANCHETTE.
- SPIRITUALISM.
- “THE COMMUNION OF SAINTS.”
- DR. DODDRIDGE’S DREAM
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