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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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A BRIEF AND TRUE NARRATIVE: titlepage

"The Bookseller to the Reader."

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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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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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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.

Notes

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A Third Curiositie.

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

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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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

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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Notes

[[139]]

This phrase shows the influence of Ralph Cudworth (see his Intellectual System, bk. I., ch. III., §37) and through him of Cambridge Platonism — whose demonology (e. g., Cudworth, bk. I., ch. V., at end) must also be remembered here.

[[140]]

It is the great Danish theologian Nicholas Hemming (Niels Hemmingsen) who tells this story of himself in his Admonitio de Superstitionibus Magicis vitandis (Copenhagen, 1575), fol. C2 verso.

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“And thou shalt be to me a great Apollo” — i. e., a great revealer of mysteries. For their unriddling see p. 370, below.