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“The New-Englanders are a People of God settled in those, which were once the Devil's Territories; and it may easily be supposed that the…

— Cotton Mather

“Since the Devil represented criminality, and since criminals in New England were said to be the Devil’s operatives, the Salem witch hunt ascribed a…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“he met with the Devill, and cheated him of his Booke, wherein were written all the Witches names in England, and if he looks…

— Matthew Hopkins

“The process of dehuminazing the locals was under way, and it had very little to do with veracity. The Puritan narratives would continue that…

— Thomas C. Foster

“The first time I saw my father-in-law's cotton, I though of the Original Sin, gardening being the root of the South's downfall.”

— Michael Lee West

“It was all witches and pitchforks. God or the devil.”

— Karin Cox

“He was a good-hearted man when he was sober, but a perfect fiend when he was drunk, or rather when he was half drunk,…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“The Devil went down to Georgia, he was lookin' for a soul to steal. He was in a bind, 'cos he was way behind;…

— Charlie Daniels

“To the grim poor there need be no pourquoi tale about where evil arises; it just arises; it always is. One never learns how…

— Gregory Maguire

“I have never even seen a witch, let alone felt the need to burn one to death. We can conclude, then, that our forefathers,…

— Bobby Henderson

The English were notoriously unenthusiastic about burning witches. I suppose ours were too soggy.

— Terry Pratchett

“His trickery was beginning to get under my crawl. Then again, what wasn’t in this country? It was always devil this and devil that.…

— Carroll Bryant Year of the Cat