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The Wonders of the Invisible World. Observations as Well Historical as Theological, upon the Nature, the Number, and the Operations of the Devils (1693)
Document Type
Article
Date of this Version
June 2007
Abstract
I. Some Accounts of the Grievous Molestations, by DÆMONS and WITCHCRAFTS, which have lately
annoy’d the Countrey; and the Trials of some eminent
Malefactors Executed upon occasion thereof; with several
Remarkable Curiosities therein occurring.
II. Some Counsils, Directing a due Improvement of the terrible
things, lately done, by the Unusual & Amazing
Range of EVIL SPIRITS, in Our Neighbourhood: &
the methods to prevent the Wrongs which those Evil
Angels may intend against all sorts of people among us;
especially in Accusations of the Innocent.
III. Some Conjectures upon the great EVENTS, likely
to befall, the WORLD in General, and NEW-ENGLAND
in Particular; as also upon the Advances of
the TIME, when we shall see BETTER DAYES.
IV. A short Narrative of a late Outrage committed by a
knot of WITCHES in Swedeland, very much Resembling,
and so far Explaining, That under which our parts
of America have laboured!
V. THE DEVIL DISCOVERED: In a Brief Discourse upon
the TEMPTATIONS, which are the more Ordinary Devices
of the Wicked One.
An online electronic edition, based on the Boston first edition of 1693, of Mather's classic and popular work on witchcraft and the Salem trials of 1692-93. Edited, with an introduction, by Reiner Smolinski.
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Introduction copyright 1998 by Reiner Smolinski.