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AMERICAN CLASSICSSALEM WITCHCRAFT
With an Account of Salem Villageand  A History of Opinions onWitchcraft and Kindred Subjects
CHARLES W. UPHAM
Volume I 
Charles W. Upham
FREDERICK UNGAR PUBLISHING CO.
New York
[
Transcriber's Note:
Originally published 1867]
Fourth Printing, 1969Printed in the United States of America
Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 59-10887
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THE TOWNSEND BISHOP HOUSE.
—Vol. I.,70,96;Vol. II.,294,467.
DEDICATEDTOOLIVER WENDELL HOLMES,PROFESSOR OF ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY INHARVARD UNIVERSITY.CONTENTSVOLUME I
PagePrefaceviito xivMap and Illustrationsxvto xviiIndex to the Mapxixto xxviiGeneral Indexxxixto xlIntroduction1to 12Part First.—Salem Village13to 322Part Second.—Witchcraft325to 469 
VOLUME II.
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Part Third.—Witchcraft at Salem Village1to 444Supplement447to 522Appendix525to 553
PREFACE
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work was originally constructed, and in previous editions appeared, in theform of Lectures. The only vestiges of that form, in its present shape, are certainmodes of expression. The language retains the character of an address by aspeaker to his hearers; being more familiar, direct, and personal than isordinarily employed in the relations of an author to a reader.The former work was prepared under circumstances which prevented athorough investigation of the subject. Leisure and freedom from professionalduties have now enabled me to prosecute the researches necessary to do justiceto it.The “Lectures on Witchcraft,” published in 1831, have long been out of print.Although frequently importuned to prepare a new edition, I was unwilling toissue again what I had discovered to be an insufficient presentation of thesubject. In the mean time, it constantly became more and more apparent, thatmuch injury was resulting from the want of a complete and correct view of atransaction so often referred to, and universally misunderstood.The first volume of this work contains what seems to me necessary to prepare thereader for the second, in which the incidents and circumstances connected withthe witchcraft prosecutions in 1692, at the village and in the town of Salem, arereduced to chronological order, and exhibited in detail.As showing how far the beliefs of the understanding, the perceptions of thesenses, and the delusions of the imagination, may be confounded, the subjectbelongs not only to theology and moral and political science, but to physiology,in its original and proper use, as embracing our whole nature; and the factspresented may help to conclusions relating to what is justly regarded as the greatmystery of our being,—the connection between the body and the mind.It is unnecessary to mention the various well-known works of authority andillustration, as they are referred to in the text. But I cannot refrain from bearingmy grateful testimony to the value of the "Collections of the MassachusettsHistorical Society" and the "New-England Historical and Genealogical Register."The "Historical Collections" and the "Proceedings" of the Essex Institute haveafforded me inestimable assistance. Such works as these are providing thematerials that will secure to our country a history such as no other nation canhave. Our first age will not be shrouded in darkness and consigned to fable, but,in all its details, brought within the realm of knowledge. Every person who
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