"A small upper bedroom in the home of Reverend Samuel Parris Salem, Massachusetts, in the spring of the year 1692.

"Which is not to say that nothing broke into this strict somber way of life. When a new farmhouse was built, friends assembled to "raise the roof," and there would be special foods cooked and probably some potent cider passed around."

"The proof of their belief's value to them may be taken from the opposite character of the first Jamestown settlement, farther south in Virginia."