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Cotton Mather, Increase Mather, Charles Wentworth Upham, M. V. B. Perley, James Thacher, William P. Upham, Samuel Roberts Wells
The True Story of Salem: Book 1-7
The Wonders of the Invisible World, The Salem Witchcraft, House of John Procter, A Short History of the Salem Village Witchcraft Trials…
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Table of Contents
The Wonders of the Invisible World by Cotton Mather and Increase Mather
Salem Witchcraft by Charles Wentworth Upham
Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather by Charles Wentworth Upham
A Short History of the Salem Village Witchcraft Trials by M. V. B. Perley
An Account of the Witchcraft Delusion at Salem in 1682 by James Thacher
House of John Procter, Witchcraft Martyr, 1692 by William P. Upham
The Salem Witchcraft by Samuel Roberts Wells
The Wonders of the Invisible World
by Cotton Mather and Increase Mather
An Abstract of Mr. Perkins's Way for the Discovery of Witches
A Discourse on the Wonders of the Invisible World
The Tryal of G. B. at a Court of Oyer and Terminer, Held in Salem, 1692
A Further Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches.
Remarks of things more than ordinary about the Afflicted Persons
Remarks concerning the Accused
Cases of Conscience Concerning Witchcrafts
Introduction
The two very rare works reprinted in the present volume, written by two of the most celebrated of the early American divines, relate to one of the most extraordinary cases of popular delusion that modern times have witnessed. It was a delusion, moreover, to which men of learning and piety lent themselves, and thus became the means of increasing it. The scene of this affair was the puritanical colony of New England, since better known as Massachusetts, the colonists of which appear to have carried with them, in an exaggerated form, the superstitious feelings with regard to witchcraft which then prevailed in the mother country. In the spring of 1692 an alarm of witchcraft was raised in the family of the minister of Salem, and some black servants were charged with the supposed crime. Once started, the alarm spread rapidly, and in a very short time a great number of people fell under suspicion, and many were thrown into prison on very frivolous grounds, supported, as such charges usually were, by very unworthy witnesses. The new governor of the colony, Sir William Phipps, arrived from England in the middle of May, and he seems to have been carried away by the excitement, and authorized judicial