The True Story of Salem: Book 1-7. Charles Wentworth Upham

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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

       Table of Contents

       Introduction

       The Author's Defence

       Enchantments Encountered

       An Abstract of Mr. Perkins's Way for the Discovery of Witches

       A Discourse on the Wonders of the Invisible World

       An Hortatory and Necessary Address, to a Country Now Extraordinarily Alarum'd by the Wrath of the Devil

       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

       The Tryal of G. B. at a Court of Oyer and Terminer, Held in Salem, 1692

       The Tryal of Bridget Bishop, Alias Oliver, at the Court of Oyer and Terminer, Held at Salem, June 2. 1692

       The Tryal of Susanna Martin, at the Court of Oyer and Terminer, Held by Adjournment at Salem, June 29. 1692

       The Tryal of Elizabeth How, at the Court of Oyer and Terminer, Held by Adjournment at Salem, June 30. 1692

       The Trial of Martha Carrier, at the Court of Oyer and Terminer, Held by Adjournment at Salem, August 2. 1692

       Matter Omitted in the Trials

       The Devil Discovered

       A Further Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches.

       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

       Cases of Conscience Concerning Witchcrafts

       Postscript

      Introduction

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      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