The Project Gutenberg e-Book of The Wonders of the Invisible World, by Cotton Mather and A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches
by Cotton Mather
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- Author
- Mather, Increase, 1639-1723
- Title
- The Wonders of the Invisible World Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England, to which is added A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches
- Credits
- Produced by Julie Barkley, S.D., and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- BF: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Psychology, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis
- Subject
- Witchcraft -- New England -- Early works to 1800
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 28513
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28513
- Release Date
- April 6, 2009
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD. BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE TRYALS OF SEVERAL WITCHES LATELY EXECUTED IN NEW-ENGLAND. — A FARTHER ACCOUNT OF THE TRYALS OF THE NEW-ENGLAND WITCHES.
- 2.INTRODUCTION.
- 3.THE CONTENTS. — The Wonders of the Invisible World: Being an Account of the TRYALS OF Several Witches , Lately Excuted in NEW-ENGLAND: And of several remarkable Curiosities therein Occurring. — THE AUTHOR'S DEFENCE. — ENCHANTMENTS ENCOUNTERED. — Section I. — § II. — § III. — § IV. — § V. — § VI. — § VII. — AN ABSTRACT OF MR. PERKINS'S WAY FOR THE DISCOVERY OF WITCHES.
- 4.A DISCOURSE ON THE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD. — Corollary I. — Corollary II. — Corollary III. — Corollary IV. — Corollary V. — The first Conjecture. — The Second Conjecture. — The Third Conjecture. — AN HORTATORY AND NECESSARY ADDRESS, TO A COUNTRY NOW EXTRAORDINARILY ALARUM'D BY THE WRATH OF THE DEVIL. TIS THIS, — A NARRATIVE OF AN APPARITION WHICH A GENTLEMAN IN BOSTON, HAD OF HIS BROTHER, JUST THEN MURTHERED IN LONDON. — A MODERN INSTANCE OF WITCHES, DISCOVERED AND CONDEMNED IN A TRYAL, BEFORE THAT CELEBRATED JUDGE, SIR MATTHEW HALE. — I. THE TRYAL OF G. B. AT A COURT OF OYER AND TERMINER, HELD IN SALEM, 1692. — II. THE TRYAL OF BRIDGET BISHOP, ALIAS OLIVER, AT THE COURT OF OYER AND TERMINER, HELD AT SALEM, JUNE 2. 1692. — I. — III. THE TRYAL OF SUSANNA MARTIN, AT THE COURT OF OYER AND TERMINER, HELD BY ADJOURNMENT AT SALEM, JUNE 29. 1692. — I. — IV. THE TRYAL OF ELIZABETH HOW, AT THE COURT OF OYER AND TERMINER, HELD BY ADJOURNMENT AT SALEM, JUNE 30. 1692. — I. — V. THE TRIAL OF MARTHA CARRIER, AT THE COURT OF OYER AND TERMINER, HELD BY ADJOURNMENT AT SALEM, AUGUST 2. 1692. — I. — The First Curiositie. — A Second Curiositie. — A Third Curiositie. — A Fourth Curiositie. — Matter Omitted in the Trials.
- 5.THE DEVIL DISCOVERED. — Case. — A FURTHER ACCOUNT OF THE TRYALS OF THE New-England Witches .
- 6.Cases of Conscience Concerning Witchcrafts and Evil Spirits Personating Men. — A True Narrative of some Remarkable Passages relating to sundry Persons afflicted by Witchcraft at Salem Village in New-England , which happened from the 19th. of March to the 5th. of April , 1692. — Remarks of things more than ordinary about the Afflicted Persons. — Remarks concerning the Accused. — A FURTHER ACCOUNT OF THE TRYALS OF THE NEW-ENGLAND WITCHES, SENT IN A LETTER FROM THENCE, TO A GENTLEMAN IN LONDON. — CASES of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits Personating MEN; WITCHCRAFTS, Infallible Proofs of Guilt in such as are Accused with that CRIME. — CHRISTIAN READER.
- 7.CASES OF CONSCIENCE CONCERNING WITCHCRAFTS.
- 8.POSTSCRIPT. — FOOTNOTES:
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