Tag: history
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The Witch Hunt: A Brief History
In honor of Women’s History Month “…a greater number of witches is found in the fragile feminine sex than among men; it is indeed a fact that it is idle to contradict, since it is accredited by actual experience, apart from the verbal testimony of credible witnesses … all witchcraft comes from carnal lust, which…
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Spirits of Exile: Malaga Island and the Displaced
In honor of black history month A fishing community wrested from an island in Maine over a century ago In 1912, nearly fifty years after slavery was abolished in the United States, an interracial community living on Malaga Island off the mid-coast of Maine was exiled by the governor at the time, Frederick Plaisted. Even…