Monday, July 12, 2021

Even back then...

I picked up a book at the book sale during Bay Days about the Salem Witch Trials. Fascinating book, published in 1954... but the thing that really stood out was this quote about the numbing 'fever' that seemed to sweep through the town of Salem Village with witches: 

As in all such epidemics where there is no actual disease germ to be communicated, the sickness was not controllable. 

I read that, reread it, as my jaw hung lower and lower, then I read it aloud to my husband... 

Sound familiar or perhaps too familiar to the bullshit that occurred last year?