“Technicalities are, however, of more interest to historians than to contemporaries.”
Source: The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry into the Salem Witch Trials (1949), Chapter 22, “We Walked in Clouds” (p. 268)
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Famous Marion L. Starkey Quotes
“Being ignored was a therapy that had rarely been tried upon these girls.”
Source: The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry into the Salem Witch Trials (1949), Chapter 18, “The Ghost of Mary Esty” (p. 223)
“Silence may have an eloquence of its own, but only in the long run.”
Source: The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry into the Salem Witch Trials (1949), Chapter 18, “The Ghost of Mary Esty” (p. 215)
“A fact will often show poor and plain in contrast to the leapings of imagination.”
Source: The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry into the Salem Witch Trials (1949), Chapter 17, “Eight Firebrands of Hell” (p. 205)
“Treat a child like a witch and you’ll have one.”
Source: The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry into the Salem Witch Trials (1949), Chapter 12, “Village Circe” (p. 152)
“At such moments the voice of reason always sounds like blasphemy and dissenters are of the devil.”
Source: The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry into the Salem Witch Trials (1949), Chapter 7, “John Proctor’s Jade” (p. 102)
Marion L. Starkey Quotes
“If such were the will of God, what wonder that so many had turned to the devil?”
Source: The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry into the Salem Witch Trials (1949), Chapter 21, “Village Purge” (p. 248)
Source: The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry into the Salem Witch Trials (1949), Chapter 18, “The Ghost of Mary Esty” (p. 221)
“As every minister knows, a prayer is a superb device for airing an opinion.”
Source: The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry into the Salem Witch Trials (1949), Chapter 5, “Gospel Witch” (p. 72)
“It’s bad business meddling with the devil; it makes you superstitious.”
Source: The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry into the Salem Witch Trials (1949), Preface (p. 18)
