![]() One such individual was Cotton Mather, a socially and politically influential New England Puritan minister, prolific author and pamphleteer. The Devil had mobilized and his captains, the demons, gave marching orders to these witches, who did their best to cause the righteous to suffer. Demons were on the rampage, deploying witches in their evil attacks on righteous, Christian New Englanders. ![]() ![]() ![]() This was a battle which became manifest in church sermons and in the court room. That one wouldn’t occur for another half century. In the late seventeenth century a battle waged across New England. Title: The Wonders of the Invisible World, being an account of the tryals of several witches lately executed in New-England – From chapter four (“The Tryal of Elizabeth How”) of The Wonders of the Invisible World And sometimes the Confessions of the Witches afterwards acknowledged those very Murders, which these Apparitions charged upon them altho’ they had never heard what Informations had been given by the Sufferers.” ![]() “It has been a most usual thing for the bewitched Persons, at the same time the Spectres representing the Witches, troubled them, to be visited with Apparitions of Ghosts, pretending to have been Murdered by the Witches then represented. ![]()
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