Hang the Witches Now! eBook Cotton Mather George Lincoln Burr
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Accounts of the trial of a woman for witchcraft in Salem in 1692, and the response of ministers to the suspected consequences from acts of witchcraft in Boston in 1688. Both reports were written and published by Rev. Cotton Mather, one of the leading ministers in New England in the late 17th century, and grandson of John Cotton and Richard Mather, two of the principal Puritan ministers at the founding of the Puritan colonies.
Hang the Witches Now! eBook Cotton Mather George Lincoln Burr
This text appears to be a short extract - around 10 to 15 pages - from Cotton Mather's account of one of the Salem Witch cases.Despite its brevity and opaque quality - we don't have context or background - it makes for surprising reading in its account of the "witchcraft" and testimony. Thus, evidence against the "witch" included not only the allegedly bewitched behavior of cows and pigs - running wild and drowning themselves at sea - but also weird stories where men claimed that the witch or an animal entered their room at night and lay on them while they were immobile. One story went so far as to say that he bit the "witch" and that her blood was discovered at the door and the footprint of the witch were found in the snow.
The first part sounds like a dream plus sleep paralysis that would involve alien abductions for modern people, but the latter part...what was going on if we credit the story.
Also, it seems that the witch was a Catholic in a Calvinist community, but the Catholic element plays no part in the judgment. Mather does not adjudge her guilty because of her "popery," albeit we might suspect that she was selected because she was something of an outcast in that society. (But why don't we hear more about her suspect religious practices?)
It is a very short text, but provides a bit of introduction to the primary source material. I'm not sure it is worth the modest price. I think that this text is included in other collections of Mather's writings.
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This text appears to be a short extract - around 10 to 15 pages - from Cotton Mather's account of one of the Salem Witch cases.
Despite its brevity and opaque quality - we don't have context or background - it makes for surprising reading in its account of the "witchcraft" and testimony. Thus, evidence against the "witch" included not only the allegedly bewitched behavior of cows and pigs - running wild and drowning themselves at sea - but also weird stories where men claimed that the witch or an animal entered their room at night and lay on them while they were immobile. One story went so far as to say that he bit the "witch" and that her blood was discovered at the door and the footprint of the witch were found in the snow.
The first part sounds like a dream plus sleep paralysis that would involve alien abductions for modern people, but the latter part...what was going on if we credit the story.
Also, it seems that the witch was a Catholic in a Calvinist community, but the Catholic element plays no part in the judgment. Mather does not adjudge her guilty because of her "popery," albeit we might suspect that she was selected because she was something of an outcast in that society. (But why don't we hear more about her suspect religious practices?)
It is a very short text, but provides a bit of introduction to the primary source material. I'm not sure it is worth the modest price. I think that this text is included in other collections of Mather's writings.
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