... and deeply entrenched was this desire for the supernatural. Exasperated, Reverend Parris calls on Rev. Hale, who is an expert in the "demonic arts,"39 to evaluate the situation. The fact that they even have an expert of the demonic arts speaks volumes about their superstitious way of life. When ... dead were coming after him.76 But this age was crying for more than superstitions; it had an "insatiable appetite for wonders," and Edgar Allan Poe was "usually three jumps in advance of the boldest of his contemporaries."77 He never falls into tradition, but creates his own.78 "Into regions ....

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