title: A Fever in Salem: A New Interpretation of the New England Witch Trials
author: Laurie Winn Carlson
description: Carlson turns to tackle a phenomenon that has engrossed and frightened generations. (Barbara Lloyd McMichael <i>The Seattle Times</i>)<br /><br />A fascinating, refreshing reassessment of one of the most bizarre episodes in American history. (<i>The A-List</i>)<br /><br />What an intriguing hypothesis! (Laurie Garrett, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer; author of I Heard the Sirens Scream)<br /><br />This book will send historians and epidemiologists scurrying back to the drawing board. (Katrina L. Kelner, Editor, <i>Science Magazine<i>)<br /><br />Ms. Carlson writes well, at times, even humorously. (Phoebe-Lou Adams <i>Atlantic Monthly</i>)<br /><br />Meticulously researched...marshals her arguments with clarity and persuasive force. (John Banville <i>The New Yorker</i>)<br /><br />Provocative, informative, and dramatic...packed with epidemiological evidence and studded with convincing figures and maps. (Nan Sumner-Mack <i>Providence Journal</i>)<br /><br />A medical mystery that will intrigue both the epidemiologist-historian detectives and the lay reader. (Robert S. Desowitz, Professor of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina and author of <i>Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria?<i>)
  						    	
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  # Witch and Wizard
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Chapter 98
  
  
  Whit
  
  
  NOW HERE’S WHAT my sister missed: I turned and saw that several of the prison
  kids were crying, bawling their little eyes
  
  
  out, shivering, cowering.
  
  
  The One Who Is The One had appeared—this time with no strong winds, no warning
  of any kind.
  
  
  He stood directly over Wisty and declared, “She’s good. She’s very good,
  Whitford. You both are. Of course, you must know that I had no intention of
  letting either of you be seriously harmed. No,
  
  
  no, no.”
  
  
  I finally found my voice. “I’ll bet you didn’t.”
  
  
  “I absolutely didn’t. That isn’t one of the prophecies. Even I can’t change
  those.”
  
  
  The One looked hard at me then, almost stared right through me. “You do know
  the prophecies about you and your sister, don’t
  
  
  you? That’s what all the fuss is about. Your parents didn’t tell you? You
  mean, no one has? You don’t know?”
  
  
  I wished I could hurt him, but all I could do was dumbly