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A new exhibition on the Salem witch trials explores how the meaning of the ... who lived in the first half of the 20th century, is “the art of changing consciousness at will.” ...

For all the notoriety which the judgment of history has fastened upon the Salem witch-hunts, the true story of the trials is a little ... description of the art of broomstick navigation.

In her book A Fever in Salem: A New Interpretation of the New England Witch Trials, Laurie Winn Carlson draws on these events at length in the first few chapters; they make fascinating reading.