The triumphs of superstition
Subtitle: an elegy
By: by a student of Harvard University.
Contributors: American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: By Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews ...
Published: 1790
Place of publication: Printed at Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 16
Subjects: Superstition -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800.
Description: This elegy was an expression of its author's abhorrence of a superstitious practice in which the bodies of those who had died of hectic fever were dug up from their burial sites and removed from their coffins. The bodies were then burned, and the resulting ashes were administered as a remedy to others of the same family also suffering from a hectic fever. This was believed to be a means of curing the illness.
Notes: Evans 22556
Attributed to Harris by Evans.
Signatures: [A]² B-D².