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From "The Tryal of Bridget Bishop, Alias Oliver, at the Court of Oyer and Terminer, Held at Salem, June 2, 1692" -  " Samuel ...

Three excerpts: "After this Thomas Bracy giuing out some words, that he suspected Katherin Gooddy Harrison of witchcraft, Katherin Harr...

"Will you tell - yes or no - is my cousin in the coach?" screamed the plump young lady, stamping her stout black boot, in a moment...

Excerpts from Between Two Worlds: True Ghost Stories of the British Isles (D.A. MacManus, Colin Smythe Ltd., 1977) - "All this time th...

In "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," Ernest Hemingway describes the impending death of a hunter suffering from a gangrenous leg (bol...

Excerpts from an article in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine : René Descartes (1596–1650), “the Father of Modern Philosophy” and a...

This past week I've been reading The Humorous Verse of Lewis Carroll (Dover, 1933), where I found the following in Canto V of Phanta...

"Gorged, yet strangely empty, Starfinder sinks into a fitful sleep.  During it, he dreams an atavistic dream that he has dreamed incre...

The modern convention seems to be to celebrate Poe on his death day (October 7), but that seems to me to be unnecessarily morbid, so I...

YouTube link .  This is the scene in the movie where a troll hops up on the bed, sits on the sleeping Drew Barrymore's chest, and ...

Miyuki Hatoyama is being mocked in cyberspace for this comment: "While my body was asleep, I think my soul rode on a triangular-shaped ...