●   ●   ●    words, he asked tentatively whether some of those found guilty may not actually have considered themselves to be witches and have tried to impress susceptible people with their powers of occult persuasion. Although students of abnormal psychology and of social pathology have concentrated their attention on the “bewitched” rather than on the accused in that episode of history, there is little reason to doubt that Salem in 1692 contained at least the normal modicum of people addicted to experiments in those subliminal and/or extrasensory forces which psychology and parapsychology today are exploring within a wholly different frame of reference.