... the Puritan ideology that had given rise to, among others, the ill-fated witch-hunts. Such a reading could be also supported by the fact that Ichabod "was a perfect master of Cotton Mather's History of New-England Witchcraft, in which, by the way, he most firmly and potently believed". Ichabod fails in his matrimony designs only due to his fancy of being run ... ...

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