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The Ruin of Witches: Life and Death in the New World Malcolm Gaskill

Allen Lane, pp.307, 20

One September day in 1649, in the frontier town of Springfield, Massachusetts, Anthony Dorchester returned from church to the house he and his wife shared with a couple called Hugh and Mary Parsons. He went to check on a cow’s tongue he was boiling for dinner but to his surprise it wasn’t in the pot.

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