Strange Explanations

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being accused. It's as if no one is safe from the crazy explanation that has stemmed from a very ordinary situation.
Rebecca's in the jail…They've surely gone wild now, Mr. Hale…My wife is the very brick and mortar of the church, Mr. Hale-and Martha Corey, there cannot be a woman more closer to God yet than Martha…. Believe me, Mr. Nurse, if Rebecca Nurse be tainted, then nothing's left to stop the whole green world from burning (71).
In the end, the only thing the Puritan's succeeded in explaining was how sensible people can be gullible enough to believe such radical ideas.
While the Puritans chose to say witchcraft was the reason for such an ordinary occurrence, some people today choose to use alien abduction as another. These people say that ordinary things like a sinus headache or an unusual scar or mark they can't remember ever having are signs of an alien abduction. Then there is the idea that if a person must sleep against the wall or with their bed ...

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