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grosser and less ethereal one lingered much longer; 

 and, indeed, in regions where primitive ideas are 

 allowed to have some footing, the notion that certain 

 occult powers, derived from an evil source, might be 

 exercised on man or beast by people of sinister ante- 

 cedents and reputation is hardly more than extinct even 



yet 



