The Witchcraft Delusion in New England: Its Rise, Progress, and Termination (Vol. 2 of 3)Mather, Cotton
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The Witchcraft Delusion in New England: Its Rise, Progress, and Termination (Vol. 2 of 3)
Mather, Cotton
Witchcraft -- New England
Printing, not sooner discovered owing to the Devil, 66.
Procter, Elizabeth, iii, 7; John, _ib._; Mrs., cried out on, 15; John,
executed, 38; Barbarity to his Family, 40; his Letter to Ministers,
40-2; his Course to prevent Witchcraft, 204.
Procter, William, made to confess by Torture, iii, 41.
Prodigies, in N. England, not a tenth Part related, iii, 161.
Pudeater, Ann, sentenced to be executed, iii, 44.
Pulsifer, David, 13, II, vii, III, 169.
Putnam, Ann, iii, 7, 8, 9; Witness against Mrs. Nurse, 11; against Mr.
Burroughs, 39, 62, 63; against Mrs. Bishop, 75; against Giles Cory,
170; against Mary Clark, 197; why she became an Accuser, 210.
Putnam, Edward, ii, 143, iii, 7.
Putnam, John, Witness against Mrs. Nurse, iii, 11; Mrs. Dastin, 128; of
Parris's Society, 198.
Putnam, Joseph, ii, 159.
Putnam, Thomas, iii, 7; swears against Mrs. Nurse, 11; Mrs. Bishop, 75;
Mrs. Daston, 128.
QUINCY, Josiah, on "Certain Proposals," ii, 106; one-sided and
dogmatical, iii, 19; on I. Mather's Diary, 136.
RAVEN, Story of one speaking, 33.
Rawson, Edward, iii, 16, 52, 197.
Rea, Joshua, iii, 198.
Redd, Willmet, condemned to die, iii, 45.
Reed, Richard, iii, 184.
Rice, Nicholas, iii, 29.
Rice, Sarah, sent to Prison, iii, 29.
Richards, John, 26, iii, 30; Judge, 125, 128.
Ring, Jervis, 185; suffers from Nightmare, iii, 103.
Ring, Joseph, 186; carried about by Demons, iii, 102; in a Snare of
Devilism, _ib._; hurried through the Air, _ib._; taken to Hellish
Meetings, 102-3.
Ring, Robert, an Error, 186.
Robie, William, II, xxi.
Robinson, George, II, xxvii.
Roggers, John, Witnesses against Martha Carrier, 197; of Billerica,
iii, 118; killed by Indians, _ib._
Ross, Alexander, Hudibras on, ii, 126.
Ruck, John, Foreman of Jury, 161, iii, 35, 72-3.
Russell, James, 26, iii, 15.
Rule, Margaret, Story of, ii, 21; seized by evil Angels, 26; fell into
odd Fits, 28; assaulted by eight cruel Spectres, _ib._; bring her a
red Book to sign, 29; her Tortures described, 30; fasts nine Days, 31;
stuck full of Pins, 32; Liquor poured down her Throat "as of scalding
Brimstone," 33; her Hurts soon cured, 34; taken up to the Ceiling and
held there, 35; her Minister interferes, 38; gets the better of the
Devil, 40; visited by Mr. Calef, 49; his Report of her Case, 49-54; a
Sweetheart in it, 51-2; Aves's Testimony concerning, 68; others, 69-70.
Rum, used in a Case of Witchcraft, ii, 51.
SABBATH, begins at Sunset, Saturday, 223.
Sadducees, unbelievers in Witchcraft, 32; Baxter on, ii, 45;
Mischievous, 46; Witlings, 60, 61; Atheists, 108; Infidels, iii, 162,
163.
Safford, Joseph, Witness, 189, iii, 105, 108-9.
Salem Village, Church Difficulties, ii, 140-3.
Saltonstall, Nathaniel, 26, ii, 109, iii, 30.
Sanderson, Robert, Deacon, iii, 207.
Sargent, Peter, 26.
Satan.--See DEVIL.
Sayer, Samuel, Apology of, iii, 135.
Scotland, Witchcraft in, ii, 7, 197.
Scott, Margaret, condemned to Death, iii, 44.
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