Salem Bewitched

Sermons, Histories, and Essays on Witchcraft, Evidence, Fanaticism, and Justice in New EnglandBy Cotton Mather, Increase Mather, Charles Wentworth Upham, M. V. B. Perley, James Thacher, William P. Upham, Samuel Roberts Wells

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Salem Bewitched gathers a striking archive of interpretation around the Salem witchcraft crisis, bringing together theological polemic, eyewitness-inflected recollection, local history, antiquarian inquiry, and later popular or psychological speculation. The volume traces how a single episode became a durable American cultural text: a site of contested evidence, religious anxiety, communal memory, and moral judgment. Early ministerial writings stand beside nineteenth-century historical reassessments, allowing the reader to observe not only the events' representation but also the changing methods used to explain them. Its contributors span generations of New England religious and literary culture. Cotton Mather and Increase Mather represent the Puritan intellectual world in which providence, invisible agency, confession, and legal testimony carried urgent significance. Charles Wentworth Upham, M. V. B. Perley, James Thacher, William P. Upham, and Samuel Roberts Wells reflect later efforts to recover documents, narrate local pasts, and reinterpret the crisis through historical, rationalist, and emerging scientific frameworks. Their juxtaposition illuminates the passage from colonial theology to modern historiography. Recommended for students of American literature, religion, history, and folklore, Salem Bewitched offers an exceptional opportunity to read competing explanations in direct dialogue. Its breadth makes it valuable both as a sourcebook and as a study in how cultures repeatedly revise their most troubling inheritances.

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GenreHistory, Literary Classics

Length57 hrs 9 mins

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Publish dateJun 4, 2019

LanguageEnglish

1The True Story of Salem: Book 1-7

2Introduction

3The Author's Defence

4Enchantments Encountered

5An Abstract of Mr. Perkins's Way for the Discovery of Witches

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6A Discourse on the Wonders of the Invisible World

7An Hortatory and Necessary Address, to a Country Now Extraordinarily Alarum'd by the Wrath of the Devil

8A Narrative of an Apparition which a Gentleman in Boston, had of His Brother, Just Then Murthered in London

9A Modern Instance of Witches, Discovered and Condemned in a Tryal, Before that Celebrated Judge, Sir Matthew Hale

10I. The Tryal of G. B. at a Court of Oyer and Terminer, Held in Salem, 1692

11II. The Tryal of Bridget Bishop, Alias Oliver, at the Court of Oyer and Terminer, Held at Salem, June 2. 1692

12III. The Tryal of Susanna Martin, at the Court of Oyer and Terminer, Held by Adjournment at Salem, June 29. 1692

13IV. The Tryal of Elizabeth How, at the Court of Oyer and Terminer, Held by Adjournment at Salem, June 30. 1692

14V. The Trial of Martha Carrier, at the Court of Oyer and Terminer, Held by Adjournment at Salem, August 2. 1692

15Matter Omitted in the Trials

16The Devil Discovered

17A Further Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches.

18A True Narrative of some Remarkable Passages relating to sundry Persons afflicted by Witchcraft at Salem Village in New-England, which happened from the 19th. of March to the 5th. of April, 1692.

19Remarks of things more than ordinary about the Afflicted Persons

20Remarks concerning the Accused

21A Further Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches, Sent in a Letter from Thence, to a Gentleman in London

22Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits Personating Men; Witchcrafts, Infallible Proofs of Guilt in such as are Accused with that Crime: Christian Reader

23Cases of Conscience Concerning Witchcrafts

24Postscript

25Salem Witchcraft by Charles Wentworth Upham

26Preface

27Map and Illustrations

28Index to the Map

29Town of Salem

30Grants

31Farms

32Introduction

33Salem Village (pt. 1)

34Salem Village (pt. 2)