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“Consider, too, the matter of display, the claims of “specialness” implicit in attack by witchcraft. Such claims were most vividly dramatized in full-blown “fits,” but, in a lesser measure, they may be imputed to all self-described victims: “The forces of evil have chosen me as their target. And you—the standers-by—must attend to me in my hour of affliction.” This”

John Putnam Demos, Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England
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Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England by John Putnam Demos
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