The Witchcraft Delusion in New England: Its Rise, Progress, and Termination, (Vol. 1 of 3)

Name: The Witchcraft Delusion in New England: Its Rise, Progress, and Termination, (Vol. 1 of 3)
Author: Robert Calef

by Robert Calef, Cotton Mather

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Dianna Adair, Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Eleni Christofaki and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was made using scans of public domain works from the University of Michigan Digital Libraries.)

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2015-10-13

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Public domain in the USA.

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Witchcraft -- New England

About the authors

Robert Calef

1648–1719

A Boston cloth merchant turned sharp critic of the Salem witch trials, he is remembered for challenging one of colonial New England’s darkest episodes. His writing pushed back against superstition and helped preserve a skeptical record of the crisis.

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Cotton Mather

1663–1728

A towering voice in colonial New England, this Puritan minister wrote hundreds of works on religion, science, and everyday life. He is still remembered for his complicated role in the Salem witch trials and for supporting smallpox inoculation in Boston.

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