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Witchcraft in Illinois: A Cultural History

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Even if Illinois saw no dramatic witch trials, witchcraft has been part of Illinois history and culture from French exploration to the present day. On the Illinois frontier, pioneers pressed silver dimes into musket balls to push back witches, even as farmers dutifully erected fence posts in keeping with phases of the moon. In 1904, the quiet town of Quincy was once shocked to be told of Bessie Bement’s suicide, after the young woman sought assist from a witch doctor to break a hex. In turn-of-the-century Chicago, Lauron William de Laurence’s occult publishing house churned out manuals for performing odd rituals intended to draw love and exact revenge. For the first time in print, Michael Kleen presents the full story of the Prairie State’s dalliance with the dark arts.

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