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Excerpt from The Wonders of the Invisible World: Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England

The two very rare works reprinted in the present volume, written by two of the most celebrated of the early American divines, relate to one of the most extraordinary cases of popular delusion that modem times have witnessed. It was a delusion, moreover, to which men of learning and piety lent themselves, and thus became the means of increasing it. The scene of this affair was the puritanical colony of New England, since better known as Massachusetts, the colonists of which appear to have carried with them, in an exaggerated form, the superstitious feelings with regard to witchcraft which then prevailed in the mother country. In the spring of 1692 an alarm of witchcraft was raised in the family of the minister of Salem, and some black servants were charged with the supposed crime. Once started, the alarm spread rapidly, and in a very short time a great number of people fell under suspicion, and many were thrown into prison on very frivolous grounds, supported, as such charges usually were, by very unworthy witnesses.

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Полное название книги Cotton Mather The Wonders of the Invisible World
Автор Cotton Mather
Ключевые слова йога и другие духовные практики, другие духовные практики
Категории Медицина и здоровье. ЗОЖ, Йога
ISBN 9781330277874
Издательство Книга по Требованию
Год 2015
Название транслитом the-wonders-of-the-invisible-world-cotton-mather
Название с ошибочной раскладкой the wonders of the invisible world cotton mather