Hutchinson, Upham, and Drake each sought to make it apparent that mundane roguishness, trickery, and malice, operating amid public credulity and infatuation, prompted and enabled frail girls and women to produce the "amazing feats," marvelous convulsions, and all the many other woeful outworkings of witchcraft.
"Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism"
Allen Putnam
The girl spoke simply, and with an absence of that roguishness which was characteristic of her.
"The Spirit of the Border A Romance of the Early Settlers in the Ohio Valley"
Zane Grey
"The last, at least, gave me a chance to help," said Betty, with a touch of her odd roguishness.
"Betty Zane"
Zane Grey