Cotton Mathers's Wonders of the Invisible World: An Authoritative Edition

Cotton Mathers's Wonders of the Invisible World: An Authoritative Edition

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ABSTRACT Although Cotton Mather, as the official chronicler of the 1692 Salem witch trials, is infamously associated with those events, and excerpts from his apologia on Salem, Wonders of the Invisible World, are widely anthologized today, no annotated critical edition of the entire work has appeare...

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Main Author: Wise, Paul Melvin
Format: Others
Published: ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University 2005
Subjects:
folk magic
folklore
witchcraft
Salem
Cotton Mather
Sweden
Lapland
Algonquian Indians
Native Americans
Samuel Parris
jimson weed
thorn apple
datura stramonium
poisoning
initiation ceremonies
nightmares
huskanaw
Wonders of the Invisible World
fly-agaric mushroom
reindeer
Sami
shamanism
drums
Paul Wise
Georgia State University
Doctor of Philosophy
Online Access:http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/english_diss/5
http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1004&context=english_diss

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