Witchcraft in America. Charles Wentworth Upham

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       Howard Williams, Frederick George Lee, M. Schele de Vere, Cotton Mather, Increase Mather, Charles Wentworth Upham, M. V. B. Perley, James Thacher, William P. Upham, Samuel Roberts Wells, John M. Taylor, Allen Putnam

      Witchcraft in America

      The Wonders of the Invisible World, The Salem Witchcraft, The Planchette Mystery, Witch Stories…

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      Table of Contents

       Introduction

       The Superstitions of Witchcraft by Howard Williams

       Witchcraft in America

       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, the Planchette Mystery, and Modern Spiritualism by Samuel Roberts Wells

       The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut (1647-1697) by John M. Taylor

       Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Allen Putnam

      Introduction

       Table of Contents

      The Superstitions of Witchcraft

       by Howard Williams

       Table of Contents

       Preface

       PART I. EARLIER FAITH

       Chapter I.

       PART II. MEDIÆVAL FAITH

       Chapter I.

       Chapter II.

       Chapter III.

       PART III. MODERN FAITH

       Chapter I.

       Chapter II.

       Chapter III.

       Chapter IV.

       Chapter V.

       Chapter VI.

       Chapter VII.

       Chapter VIII.

       Chapter IX.

       Chapter X.

      Preface

       Table of Contents

      'The Superstitions of Witchcraft' is designed to exhibit a consecutive review of the characteristic forms and facts of a creed which (if at present apparently dead, or at least harmless, in Christendom) in the seventeenth century was a living and lively faith, and caused thousands of victims to be sent to the torture-chamber, to the stake, and to the scaffold. At this day, the remembrance of its superhuman art, in its different manifestations, is immortalised in the every-day language of the peoples of Europe.

      The belief in Witchcraft is, indeed, in its full development and most fearful results, modern still more than mediæval, Christian still more than Pagan, and Protestant not less than Catholic.

      PART I.

       EARLIER FAITH

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      Chapter I.

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      The Origin, Prevalence, and Variety of Superstition—The Belief in Witchcraft the most horrid Form of Superstition—Most flourishing in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries—The Sentiments of Addison, Blackstone, and the Lawyers of the Eighteenth Century upon the Subject—Chaldean and Persian Magic—Jewish Witchcraft—Its important Influence on Christian and Modern Belief—Greek Pharmacy and Sorcery—Early Roman Laws against Conjuration and Magic Charms—Crimes perpetrated, under the Empire, in connection with Sorceric Practices—The general Persecution for Magic under Valentinian and Valens—German and Scandinavian Sagæ—The probable