Flashback to November 22, 2004 —
Charles Williams on the
Salem witchcraft trials:
“The afflicted children continued to testify; there entered into the cases
what was called ‘spectral evidence,’ a declaration by the witness that
he or she could see that else invisible shape before them, perhaps hurting them.
It was a very ancient tendency of witnesses, and it had occurred at a number of
trials in Europe.”
— Witchcraft , Meridian Books, Inc., New York,
1959 (first published 1941), page 281
