CHAPTER XIV.

SALEM VILLAGE, AND '92.

The Witch-ground.--Antiquity of Witchcraft.--First Case in New England.--Curiosities of Witchcraft.--Rebecca Nurse.--Beginning of Terrorism at Salem Village.--Humors of the Apparitions.--General Putnam's Birthplace.--What may be seen in Danvers 208

A WALK TO WITCH HILL.

Salem in 1692.--Birthplace of Hawthorne.--Old Witch House.--William Stoughton, Governor.--Witch Hill.--A Leaf from History 220