Author: Cotton MatherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The Wonders of the Invisible World
Author: Cotton MatherSalem Witchcraft
Author: Samuel P. FowlerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
A World of Darkness: Cotton Mather and the 1692 Salem Witchcraft Trials
Author: David W. PricePublisher: Koehler Books
ISBN: 9781646630202
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Salem Village, Massachusetts, winter 1692. Two young girls, Betty Parris and Abigail Williams, use magic to foretell who they will marry. Within days, both girls display the telltale signs of witchcraft possession. For the next fifteen months, witchcraft accusations, trials, and executions spiral out of control. Nineteen "witches" are hanged, and one is pressed to death. At the eye of the storm stands Cotton Mather, a prominent Boston pastor. During the trials he advises the Salem judges. Afterwards he defends them in his book, The Wonders of the Invisible World. It will be Mather's consummate theological explanation of Salem's dark hour, and it will seal his historical fate. Contemporaries will attack him; subsequent historians will castigate him, largely ignoring his theology in Salem trial studies. A World of Darkness is the first work to utilize Mather's theological beliefs as a lens to interpret the Salem witchcraft trials. It asks the question, "What can Mather's seventeenth-century Puritan theology tell us about the Salem witchcraft episode?"
Cotton Mather and Salem Witchcraft
Author: William Frederick PoolePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Witchcraft
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
On Witchcraft
Author: Cotton MatherPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486117324
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
In this fascinating account of witches and devils in colonial America, the renowned and influential minister of Boston's Old North Church attempts to justify his role in the Salem witch trials. A true believer in the devil's battle to get converts in Salem and other Massachusetts towns during the late seventeenth century, Mather also believed the fantastic accusations of those who accused their neighbors of witchcraft. The theologian's book, first published in 1692, provides readers with guidelines for discovering witches, explanations for how good Christians are tempted by the devil to become witches, and methods of resisting such temptation. The great Boston minister also provides testimony from a number of similar trials, describes instances of witchcraft in other countries, and explains the devil's predicament in dealing with Christianity. Essential reading for students of the Salem witch trials, On Witchcraft will intrigue anyone interested in early American social and cultural history.
Memorable Providences, Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions
Author: Cotton MatherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Supernatural
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
More Wonders of the Invisible World, Or The Wonders of the Invisible World Displayed. In Five Parts
Author: Robert CalefPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781016105835
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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Salem Witchcraft
Author: Charles Wentworth UphamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Salem (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather
Author: Charles Wentworth UphamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Salem (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather
Author: Charles UphamPublisher:
ISBN: 9781533631039
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
From the Introduction: "An article in The North American Review, for April, 1869, is mostly devoted to a notice of the work published by me, in 1867, entitled Salem Witchcraft, with an account of Salem Village, and a history of opinions on witchcraft and kindred subjects. If the article had contained criticisms, in the usual style, merely affecting the character of that work, in a literary point of view, no other duty would have devolved upon me, than carefully to consider and respectfully heed its suggestions. But it raises questions of an historical nature that seem to demand a response, either acknowledging the correctness of its statements or vindicating my own. The character of the Periodical in which it appears; the manner in which it was heralded by rumor, long before its publication; its circulation, since, in a separate pamphlet form; and the extent to which, in certain quarters, its assumptions have been endorsed, make a reply imperative."