Transcriber's Note. A list of the changes made can be found at the end of the book. Mark-up: _italic_ =bold= +spaced+ ==blackletter== Woodward's Historical Series. No. V. THE ==Witchcraft Delusion== IN NEW ENGLAND: ITS RISE, PROGRESS, AND TERMINATION, AS EXHIBITED BY Dr. COTTON MATHER, IN _THE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD;_ AND BY Mr. ROBERT CALEF, IN HIS _MORE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD_. WITH A ==Preface, Introduction, and Notes==, BY SAMUEL G. DRAKE. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. I. _The Wonders of the Invisible World._ PRINTED FOR W. ELLIOT WOODWARD, ROXBURY, MASS. MDCCCLXVI. No. 103 Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1865, By SAMUEL G. DRAKE, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts. EDITION IN THIS SIZE 280 COPIES. MUNSELL, PRINTER. TO MY MORE THAN BROTHER, HARLOW ROYS, WHO AT ALL TIMES ALIKE IN PROSPERITY AND ADVERSITY HAS STOOD MY FRIEND, WHO WHEN MY STEPS SEEMED RAPIDLY DESCENDING INTO THE "DARK VALLEY" AND "THE RIVER" WITH THE "BOATMAN PALE" WERE CLOSE BEFORE ME, CHEERED ME BY HIS PRESENCE AND HELD ME BACK BY THE GRASP OF HIS STRONG HAND, WARM WITH LIFE AND LOVE, IN TOKEN OF AN AFFECTION WHICH STRONG AT FIRST, AS YEARS PASS AND WE GROW OLDER GROWS MORE INTENSE, I DEDICATE THESE VOLUMES. W. [Decoration] PREFATORY.