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BEDEVILED OF COMMON SENSE

Posted on March 12, 2010 by Dave

Torture and mythology, the pincers and the book, these were the essential machinery of the European witch craze. Out of hallucination and suggestion was created a terrible empire of darkness which then acquired a life and momentum of its own, … Continue reading →

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