It is curious that one of the proven cures for human hysteria is the threat of legal action. During the Salem witch trials of 1692, the supposedly ‘tormented’ girls who had accused villagers of cavorting with the devil ‘cried out’ against a gentleman from the nearby town of Andover. He promptly issued a writ for defamation, and the girls swiftly retract…
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