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It seems evident, then, that all the phenomena of animal magnetism have been from an early period known to mankind under the various forms of divinatory ecstasy, demonopathy or witchmania, theomania, or fanatical religious excitation, spontaneous catalepsy, and somnambulism.
The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II Various
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It would be no more than has already happened in all the epidemics of lycanthropy and witchmania, of the dancers of St. Vitas, of the Jumpers, Quakers, and Revivalists, of the
The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II Various
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The town of Salem, 20 miles north of Boston, has a four-century-old bad rap that is very good for tourism: back in 1692, 19 men and women were condemned to death at the Salem Witch Trials, leading to today's slew of witch museums, witch shops and general witchmania.
NYT > Home Page By SETH KUGEL 2011
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