The Witchcraft Delusion in New England: Its Rise, Progress, and Termination (Vol. 3 of 3)Mather, Cotton
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The Witchcraft Delusion in New England: Its Rise, Progress, and Termination (Vol. 3 of 3)
Mather, Cotton
Witchcraft -- New England
Bishop, Bridget, Trial of, 163; what her Shape did, 164; her Coat torn
while Invisible, 165; her Poppets discovered, 173; Teats found upon
her, 174; accused ten Years before, 208; long reputed a Witch, iii, 31;
Executed, _ib._; Copy of her Indictment, 74; others, 75-6; Trial of,
77-80; why called Oliver, 78; has a preternatural Teat, which vanished,
88.
Bishop, Edward, iii, 11; and Wife Sarah, committed, 16; why cried out
on, 17; escape from Prison, 49; his Sow bewitched, 81-2.
Bishop, Samuel, iii, 49; had married a Putnam, _ib._
Black-art taught by the Devil, I, xii.
Black, Mary, arrested, iii, 16.
Blackmore, Richard, Sir, I, lxxvi.
Black Pig, one appears to John Louder, iii, 85-6.
Blazdel, [Henry?] 181, iii, 97.
Bligh, (Bly,) John, swears against Mrs. Bishop, 167, iii, 81-2, 88.
Bligh, William, 173, iii, 76, 78, 82, 88.
Blount, Thomas, Definition of Witchcraft, I, xii-xiii.
Bocking, Jane, 142.
Bodin, John, Writer on Demonology, ii, 6, 117.
Bohun, Edmund, Licencer, I, cii.
Booth, Elizabeth, iii, 16, 204.
Boxford, Witchcraft in, iii, 126.
Boynton, Joseph, ii, 151.
Bradbury, Mary, condemned, iii, 44.
Bradford, William, 26.
Bradley, Samuel, II, xxvii.
Bradstreet, John, accused, iii, 52; makes his escape, 53.
Bradstreet, Simon, 26, ii, 85, iii, 52, 145-6; Dudley commits accused,
iii, 52.
Brattle, Thomas, Letter to, ii, 85-92; William, 108.
Braybrook, Samuel, iii, 7; accuses Giles Cory, 170.
Bridges, James, iii, 126.
Bridgham, Joseph, ii, 151.
Bridgman, Orlando, Sir, 141.
Brimstone, horrid Scent of, 121; without a Metaphor, 122; a Flood of,
ii, 4; used in tormenting, ii, 33; scalded with, 47; smelt in Margaret
Rule's Case, 53.
Brinley, George, I, viii.
Brown, Hopestill, iii, 221.
Brown, William, Witness, 182; his Wife sees Susannah Martin vanish,
iii, 99; some Devil bewitches her, _ib._
Bunyan, John, I, xxi.
Burder, George, I, lxxix.
Burnet, Bishop, 140.
Burroughs, George, 151; Charges against, 153; childish Accusations
against, 154; alleged Confusion, 155; accused of Murders, 156; Ghosts
of his Wives, 157; his Promises to induce People to become Witches,
158; had the Strength of a Giant, 159; Treatment of his Wives, 160;
puts on Invisibility, 161-2; denies the Existence of Witches, 162;
Executed, 163; his great Strength from the Devil, ii, 9; further
Account of his Execution, iii, 38-9; Confession of one of his Accusers,
43; Indictment, 61; Trial, 63; Brother-in-Law to Mr. Ruck, 72-3; denies
that there are Witches, 74; about his putting on Invisibility, 123;
Cause of his being prosecuted, 210.
Burrows, [Burroughs] Jeremiah, 84.
Burton, Robert, I, xxxviii.
Buxton, John, afflicted, iii, 17.
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