It's the voice of God talking."19 At the age of fifty-two, Richards can still support herself and her husband with the money she earns as a professional psychic.20 Ghost hunting clubs, alien-searching satellites, and psychics are only a few of the many outlets available to Americans in modern times. ... Her two main series are The Vampire Chronicles and The Mayfair Witches.22 The Vampire Chronicles portrays modern vampires through a vampire's eyes, often as victims of the "dark gift"23 of vampirism, struggling to come to terms with their nature or accepting it and moving o...

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Miller brilliantly expresses a particular crisis the modern witch hunt in his own society, but it is not often, in ou own world, that the issues and statements so clearly emerge in a naturally dramatic form (13). ... The Crucible was included in schools as a modern classic. ... In Salem, Massachusetts, a black slave woman and twelve teenage girls were caught dancing around a bubbling cauldron in the woods, despite the fact that dancing was not allowed by the Puritans. The Puritan government ruled the church in 1692 and relig n believed that women who dance with the Devil are witches. ... It wa...

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Like Betty Parris, Ruth falls into a strange stupor after Reverend Parris catches her and the other girls dancing in the woods at night. ... Betty falls into a strange stupor after Parris catches her and the other girls dancing in the forest with Tituba. ...

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