Thomas Ady
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Thomas Ady
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Thomas Ady was an English physician and humanist who was the author of two sceptical books on witchcraft and witch-hunting. His first and best known work,
A Candle in the Dark: Or, A Treatise Concerning the Nature of Witches & Witchcraft, was used unsuccessfully by George Burroughs, formerly the Puritan minister of the parish, in his defense during the Salem witch trials. Ady's second publication, published in 1661, was a reprint of his first, with a new title, A Perfect Discovery of Witches. Th
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English writer
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2024-02-15T04:12:36Z
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