- 1Introduction
- 2The Place
- 3The Salemite of Forty Years Ago
- 4How the Subject Was Opened
- 5Careful Historiography
- 6The Actors in the Tragedy
- 7Philosophy of the Delusion
- 8Character of the Early Settlement
- 9First Causes
- 10Death of the Patriarch
- 11Growth
- 12Trouble in the Church
- 13Rev. Mr. Burroughs
- 14Deodat Lawson
- 15Parris — A Malignant
- 16A Protean Devil
- 17State of Physiology
- 18William Penn as a Precedent
- 19Phenomena of Witchery
- 20Parris and His “Circle”
- 21The Inquisitions — Sarah Good
- 22A Child Witch
- 23The Towne Sisters
- 24Depositions of Parris and His Tools
- 25Goody Nurse’s Excommunication
- 26Mary Easty
- 27Mrs. Cloyse
- 28The Proctor Family
- 29The Jacobs Family
- 30Giles and Martha Corey
- 31Decline of the Delusion
- 32The Physio-Psychological Causes of the Trouble
- 33The Last of Parris
- 34“One of the Afflicted” — Her Confession
- 35The Transition
- 36The Fetish Theory Then and Now
- 37The Views of Modern Investigators
- 38Importance of the Subject
- 39What Planchette Is and Does
- 40The Press on Planchette
- 41Theory First — That the Board Is Moved by the Hands That Rest Upon It
- 42Theory Second — It Is Electricity, or Magnetism
- 43Electricity Has Nothing to Do With It
- 44Third — The Devil Theory
- 45Theory of a Floating, Ambient Mentality
- 46“To Daimonion” (the Demon)
- 47It Is Some Principle of Nature as Yet Unknown
- 48Theory of the Agency of Departed Spirits
- 49Planchette’s Own Theory
- 50The Rational Difficulty
- 51The Medium — The Doctrine of Spheres
- 52The Moral and Religious Difficulty
- 53What This Modern Development Is, and What Is to Come of It
- 54Conclusion
- 55How to Work Planchette
- 56Spiritualism
- 57“The Communion of Saints”
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