Book Explores Witchcraft in Colonial New England Mind-Set
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque) › October 30, 2007
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NEW CASTLE, N.H. (AP) - A 2-foot-high rock wall borders the elementary school near the spot where a satanic spirit purportedly showered George and Alice Walton's home and tavern with stones 325 years ago. It set off a wave of hysteria that foreshadowed the Salem witch trials.
Could some of the rocks now neatly arranged outside Mabel H. Trefethen School be among those that came crashing down on Walton's property on the night of June 11, 1682, creating the belief that a stone-throwing devil was on the loose?See the full content of this document
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Book Explores Witchcraft in Colonial New England Mind-Set
"Who knows where (the rocks) came from? Your guess is as good as mine," says historian ...
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