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Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706

 
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A BRIEF AND TRUE NARRATIVE, BY DEODAT LAWSON, 1692
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INTRODUCTION
 
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A BRIEF AND TRUE NARRATIVE: titlepage
 
"The Bookseller to the Reader."
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Narrative
 
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Remarks of things more than ordinary about the Afflicted Persons.
 
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Remarks concerning the Accused.
 
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LETTER OF THOMAS BRATTLE, F. R. S., 1692
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INTRODUCTION
 
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LETTER OF THOMAS BRATTLE, F. R. S., 1692
 
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LETTERS OF GOVERNOR PHIPS TO THE HOME GOVERNMENT, 1692-1693
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LETTERS OF GOVERNOR PHIPS
 
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FROM “THE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD,” BY COTTON MATHER, 1693
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INTRODUCTION
 
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THE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD
 
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The Author's Defence.
 
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I. The Tryal of G. B. At a Court of Oyer and Terminer, Held in Salem, 1692.
 
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II. The Tryal of Bridget Bishop, alias Oliver, At the Court of Oyer and Terminer Held at Salem, June, 2, 1692.
 
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III. The Tryal of Susanna Martin, At the Court of Oyer and Terminer, Held by Adjournment at Salem, June 29, 1692.
 
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IV. The Trial of Elizabeth How, at the Court of Oyer and Terminer, Held by Adjournment at Salem, June 30, 1692.
 
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V. The Trial of Martha Carrier, at the Court of Oyer and Terminer, Held by Adjournment at Salem, August 2, 1692.
 
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The First Curiositie.
 
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A Second Curiositie.
 
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A Third Curiositie.
 
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A Fourth Curiositie.
 
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FROM “MORE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD,” BY ROBERT CALEF, 1700
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MORE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD
 
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The Epistle to the Reader, And more especially to the Noble Bereans of this Age, wherever Residing.
 
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ANOTHER BRAND PLUCKT OUT OF THE BURNING, OR, MORE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD PART I.
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Section I. The Afflictions of Margaret Rule.
 
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PART II. A Letter to Mr. C. M.
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PART V. An Impartial Account of the most Memorable Matters of Fact, touching the supposed Witchcraft in New England.
 
To their Majesties Goal-keeper in Salem.
 
To Marshal George Herrick of Salem Essex.
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An Account how John Aldin, Senior, was dealt with at Salem-Village.
 
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July 4, 1692.
 
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By the Honourable the Lieutenant Governour, Council and Assembly of his Majesties Province of the Massachusetts Bay, in General Court Assembled.
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Some that had been of several Jewries, have given forth a Paper, Sign'd with their own hands in these words.
 
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A MODEST INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE OF WITCHCRAFT, BY JOHN HALE, 1702
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HALE'S A MODEST INQUIRY
 
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An Epistle to the Reader.
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The Preface to the Christian Reader.
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A MODEST ENQUIRY, INTO THE NATURE OF WITCHCRAFT Chapter I.
 
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Chapter II.
 
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Chapter III.
 
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Chapter IV.
 
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Chapter XVIII.
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[[418].]

Precedents.

[[419].]

Susannah Martin and Bridget Bishop.

[[420].]

At pp. 223-236, above.

[[421].]

Timothy Swan, aged thirty, died early in February, 1692/3 (N. E. Hist. and Gen. Reg., II. 380; Mrs. Bailey, Historical Sketches of Andover, p. 237).

[[422].]

Than.

[[423].]

I. e., Satan (see Rev. xii. 10).

[[424].]

Deserving of consideration.

[[425].]

The famous witch-hunt in which Matthew Hopkins was the leading spirit (1645-1646).

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What is in thought is doubtless the boast of Nicolas Remy (Remigius), on the title-page of his Dœmonolatreia (1595), that his book rests on the trials of nine hundred, put to death for witchcraft within fifteen years; but this was in Lorraine, not yet a part of France, though in close relations with it.

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Lib. VI., cap. 20, of this notable book by which the eminent Rhenish physician Wierus (Johann Weyer, 1515-1588) gave to the zeal of the witch-haters its first effective check. This passage, however, he borrows bodily from the Parergon Juris (VIII. 22) of an earlier opponent of witch persecution, the Italian jurist Andrea Alciati.

[[428].]

I. e., those crazed more than criminal: hellebore was counted a cure for insanity.

[[429].]

See p. 416, note 5. “Burton” has merely inserted into his Kingdom of Darkness (pp. 148-159) the contents of the contemporary True and Exact Relation (1645) which narrates this Essex persecution.

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The following chapters (V.-XVII.) are devoted to the nature of witchcraft and the proper means for its detection.

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