Charles Bailey Bell & Harriet Parks Miller.  
 
Charles Elder - Bookseller: 1972. Facsimile Reproduction. Hardcover in a jacket. Duodecimo. Wrinkling down the jacket's spine. Chipping and slight scuffing around the top and bottom of the jacket as well. Jacket is clipped. A little scuffing along the top and bottom of the boards. Minor foxing on the top edge. A slight fading of the gilt letters on the spine. 304 pages. Very good. 
 
One of America's most scandalous witch stories was the Bell Witch of Tennessee, who when in human form assumed the body of Kate Batts. Fat, admirer of virtue, opposer of marriages, mule whisperer, and tormentor of the virtuous John Bell, capriciousness seems to be her defining quality. This reprint is two books in one volume, a service done by Charles Elder for the scholar of the American occult.  Dr. Charles Bailey Bell used family diaries to reconstruct the 1817 to 1821 haunting of the Bell family, and Harriet Miller's book collects neighbors testimonies of the occurrences.  Let that begin the investigation.
 
"It may be a strange story, nevertheless it is authentic, not only as recorded ... but transmitted to the present generation of the surrounding country through family reminiscences of that most eventful and exciting period ... and is recognized in (almost) every household as a historical truth."