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Memorable providences, relating to witchcrafts and possesions : a faithful account of many wonderful and surprising things, that have befallen several bewitched and possessed persons in New-England ... : whereunto is added, A discourse delivered unto a congregation in Boston ... : as also, A discourse delivered unto the same congregation ... : with an appendix ... / written by Cotton Mather ... and recommended by the ministers of Boston and Charleston.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.
- Series:
- Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.
- Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Witchcraft--New England.
- Witchcraft.
- Supernatural.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource ([4], 102 p.)
- Other Title:
- Memorable providences, relating to witchcrafts and possesions
- Place of Publication:
- [Boston] : Printed at Boston in New-England, and re-printed at Edinburgh, by the heirs and successors of Andrew Anderson ... , 1697.
- Contents:
- A discourse on the power and malice of the devils
- A discourse on witchcraft
- Notandum
- Appendix.
- Notes:
- Dedicated to Wait Winthrop--P. [1].
- "To the reader" signed: Charles Morton, James Allen, Joshua Moodey, Samuel Willard--P. [3].
- "A confession of a boy at Tocutt" was taken from a manuscript of Richard Mather.--Cf. Holmes, T.J. Cotton Mather, v. 2, p. 660.
- Reproduction of original from Huntington Library.
- Sabin no. 46408.
- Cited in:
- Holmes, T.J.: Cotton Mather 228-c
- RLIN, CTRG97-B2009
- Contains:
- Discourse on the power and malice of the devils.
- Discourse on witchcraft.
- OCLC:
- 85792246
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