“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)
Marion L. Starkey: Devil
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“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)
“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)