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Prof. Richard Barlow
- Reverend Russell: They must sacrifice a young girl on two nights of the year.
- Richard Barlow: When are these nights, sir?
- Reverend Russell: Candlemas Eve, and the Witch's Sabbath.
- Richard Barlow: Candlemas Eve, that, that's February the 1st, when is the Witch's Sabbath?
- Reverend Russell: *Tonight*.
- Richard Barlow: [to Nan] Any good encyclopedia will give you all the nonsense you want to know about witchcraft.
- Prof. Alan Driscoll: Witchcraft is not nonsense, Barlow.
- Richard Barlow: I'm sorry, Driscoll; witchcraft, black magic, sorcery--to me it's all mumbo jumbo. I'm a scientist, Driscoll, I believe what I can see, what I can feel and touch.
- Prof. Alan Driscoll: The basis of fairy tales is reality, the basis of reality is fairy tales. As a scientist you should be familiar with that quotation.
- Richard Barlow: Well, I don't believe that somebody in Chicago can die of a heart attack because some woman in New Orleans sticks a pin in a wax doll.
- Prof. Alan Driscoll: Maybe YOU don't, but practitioners of voodoo claim otherwise.
- Richard Barlow: When I look into a microscope, Driscoll, I see bacteria swimming, fighting, existing--that's real. These witches that were persecuted and burned in the 17th century were real too, but they weren't witches. They were pitiful human beings, victims of hysteria.
- Prof. Alan Driscoll: There are many imminent scholars who have documented proof of the actual practice of witchcraft.
- Richard Barlow: Yeah, but how effective was this practice? Did any of these imminent scholars ever meet a practicing witch? Did *you* ever meet a witch, Driscoll?
- Prof. Alan Driscoll: Perhaps.