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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1930
Page
2
Verna Grodland explores historic British views of witches and witchcraft, detailing white and black witches, public fear, and how outbreaks arise from political or religious crises. It describes Anglo Saxon terms, image magic with wax and pins, and a nurse or clerk tale of a fatal misfire.
A detailed look at witchcraft beliefs and practices from Elizabethan to colonial America. The piece notes love charms, cure charlatans, haunted objects, and the alleged power of witches over weather, livestock, and illness, with references to Dame Alice, King James, and the Salem era origins in Samuel Parris’s home.
Multiple notices declare candidacies for Fourth District supervisor and State Representative. J M Robinson, S E B Sandyig, Charlie Christianson seek Republican primaries in June. H E Barringer announces for State Representative from Palo Alto County with June 2 1980 primaries date.
Dwight G. McCarty announces his candidacy for State Representative from Palo Alto County on the Republican ticket at the June Primary.
The text notes twenty eight deaths by punishment, with six more executed just before 1692, contrasting New England’s one year outburst with hundreds of executions elsewhere in the seventeenth century. It mentions the last execution in New England in 1692 and that many trials continued on the next page.
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