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WITCHCRAFT & DEMONOLOGY · 1693 · PUBLIC DOMAIN

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

Cotton Mather, Increase Mather

31 CHAPTERS · 83,495 WORDS · ABOUT 315 MINUTES

Cotton Mather's account, written in the year of the Salem trials, of the witchcraft cases of 1692 and the invisible world he believed lay behind them — the primary text of American witch-hunting, in its own words.

SUBJECTSSalem witch trialsDemonologyColonial New EnglandSpectral evidence
TAGS#witchcraft#salem#demonology#colonial-america#massachusetts#spectral-evidence#trial-record#1692#primary-source
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CONTENTS

  1. 1TO WHICH IS ADDED8 MIN
  2. 2A DISCOURSE ON THE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD 381 MIN
  3. 3THE DEVIL DISCOVERED 1721 MIN
  4. 4CASES OF CONSCIENCE CONCERNING WITCHCRAFTS 2256 MIN
  5. 5REVEREND AND DEAR SIR,2 MIN
  6. 6SECTION I.22 MIN
  7. 7AN ABSTRACT OF MR. PERKINS'S WAY FOR8 MIN
  8. 8A DISCOURSE ON THE WONDERS OF — part 113 MIN
  9. 9A DISCOURSE ON THE WONDERS OF — part 212 MIN
  10. 10A DISCOURSE ON THE WONDERS OF — part 312 MIN
  11. 11A DISCOURSE ON THE WONDERS OF — part 410 MIN
  12. 12TIS THIS,32 MIN
  13. 13A NARRATIVE OF AN APPARITION WHICH — A GENTLEMAN IN BOSTON, HAD OF HIS BROTHER,3 MIN
  14. 14A MODERN INSTANCE OF WITCHES, — DISCOVERED AND CONDEMNED IN A TRYAL, — BEFORE THAT CELEBRATED JUDGE,10 MIN
  15. 15I. — THE TRYAL OF G. B. AT A COURT OF — OYER AND TERMINER,10 MIN
  16. 16I.10 MIN
  17. 17I.11 MIN
  18. 18I.5 MIN
  19. 19I. — part 111 MIN
  20. 20I. — part 212 MIN
  21. 21I. — part 313 MIN
  22. 22I. — part 412 MIN
  23. 23I. — part 513 MIN
  24. 24REMARKS OF THINGS MORE THAN ORDINARY ABOUT THE3 MIN
  25. 25A FURTHER ACCOUNT OF THE TRYALS OF — THE NEW-ENGLAND WITCHES, SENT IN A LETTER FROM8 MIN
  26. 26CASES OF CONSCIENCE CONCERNING — part 112 MIN
  27. 27CASES OF CONSCIENCE CONCERNING — part 211 MIN
  28. 28CASES OF CONSCIENCE CONCERNING — part 312 MIN
  29. 29CASES OF CONSCIENCE CONCERNING — part 411 MIN
  30. 30CASES OF CONSCIENCE CONCERNING — part 512 MIN
  31. 31CASES OF CONSCIENCE CONCERNING — part 610 MIN

THE TEXT

Text of the Project Gutenberg edition (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). Taken from Project Gutenberg (eBook #28513). Public domain in the United States; no rights are claimed over the text.