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
See also Litsky’s obituary from All Saints’ Day, 2018.
Litsky reportedly died on October 30, 2018 — Devil’s Night.
See also Aloha.
But see as well . . .
Click to enlarge the above story by Paul Meyer, Dayton sports writer.
* Update at 10:45 AM EDT —
A title check yields a comedian’s book.
I prefer Wallace Stevens . . .
See Thunderstorms of Yucatan.
Lynchburg Law
From today’s New York Times:
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The Rev. Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University [at Lynchburg, Virginia] is part of a movement around the nation that brings a religious perspective to the law.
Sam Dean for The New York Times The connection between the Bible and the law is part of the curriculum at Liberty, one of a number of new religiously oriented law schools. |
The Times’s photo (above) of books on the Bible and the law, apparently at Lynchburg, suggests a related book that may be of considerable value to the legal scholars there:
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
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