Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706

A BRIEF AND TRUE NARRATIVE, BY DEODAT LAWSON, 1692

LETTER OF THOMAS BRATTLE, F. R. S., 1692

LETTERS OF GOVERNOR PHIPS TO THE HOME GOVERNMENT, 1692-1693

FROM “THE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD,” BY COTTON MATHER, 1693

INTRODUCTION

THE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD

The Author's Defence.

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

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.

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

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

The First Curiositie.

FROM “MORE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD,” BY ROBERT CALEF, 1700

A MODEST INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE OF WITCHCRAFT, BY JOHN HALE, 1702

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As to Bridget Bishop see also pp. 249, 356, below. She was of Salem Village, where she kept a sort of wayside tavern, but had long lived in the town, and still held property there. She was the first witch to be tried (June 2) and executed (June 10) — perhaps because she had so long been under suspicion. The records of her case are printed in Records of Salem Witchcraft, I. 135-172.

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Supposed, of course, by her accusers to be such “images” as witches were alleged to make of their victims, for the sake of torturing them by proxy. (See above, p. 163, note 1, p. 219, and below, p. 440, note 1.)

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See below, p. 436, and note 1.

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