The Huguenots of America is a volume which still
remains fully and correctly to be written. This is a period when
increased attention and study are directed to historical subjects, and
we gladly will contribute what mite we may possess to the important
object.
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THE BLACK WITCH.
'A witch,' according to my nurse's account, 'must be a haggard old
woman, living in a little rotten cottage under a hill by a wood-side,
and must be frequently spinning by the door; she must have a black cat,
two or three broom-sticks, and must be herself of so dry a nature, that
if you fling her into a river she will not sink: so hard then is her
fate, that, if she is to undergo the trial, if she does not drown she
must be burnt, as many have been within the memory of man.'
ROUND ABOUT OUR COAL FIRE.
In a bustling New England village there lived, not many years ago, a
poor, infirm, deformed little old woman, who was known to the
middle-aged people living there and thereabout as 'Aunt Hannah.' The
younger members of the little community had added another and very
odious title to the 'Aunt'--they called her 'Aunt Hannah, the Black
Witch.' Not that she was of negro blood.
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