andpropagated

Updated: June 1, 2025

But these, no doubt, were foolish stories, conceived andpropagated in chimney-corners, while yet there were chimney-corners and firesides, and smoky flues. There wasno truth in such things, I am sure; the Black Man had changedhis tactics, and knew better than to lure the human soul thus to come to him with his musty autograph-book.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life