THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Theodore Dalrymple) - Is the Witchcraft Mania Really Behind Us?
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Takimag Is the Witchcraft Mania Really Behind Us? Violent unreason still has its days in the sun. TakiMag Since I buy books faster than I read them, they accumulate on my shelves. I never buy a book without intending to read it, but often it has to wait for years before it is so honored, and at my death there will be many that remain undeservedly unread. It must be 30 years at least, and probably nearer forty, since I bought a copy of the second edition, published in 1831, of Sir Walter Scott’s Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft. Finally, for the sake of a book that I was writing, I read it; and I finished it with a growing…Open
