“Being ignored was a therapy that had rarely been tried upon these girls.”

— Marion L. Starkey

Source: The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry into the Salem Witch Trials (1949), Chapter 18, “The Ghost of Mary Esty” (p. 223)

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American historian & writer 1901–1991

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