“Treat a child like a witch and you’ll have one.”

— Marion L. Starkey

Source: The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry into the Salem Witch Trials (1949), Chapter 12, “Village Circe” (p. 152)

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American historian & writer 1901–1991

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