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
burn all the Bibles, 229; a Throng of in the Author's Meeting-house,
230; he rocks Persons to sleep there, 231; hurried Jesus to the Top of
the Temple, 232; prevents Witches from uttering all the Lord's Prayer,
_ib._; a Nimrod, 233; can attack with Thunder and Lightning; raise
Storms, _ib._; a Goliah; dogs Ministers, bad at quoting Scripture, 234;
quotes it for our Terror, 235; plays the Preacher, 236; consulting
Astrologers is going to the Devil, 238; a Mountebank, 241; to worship
him is Witchcraft, 243; with lengthened Chains, ii, 4; commissioned
by Witches questioned, 7; further discussed, _ib._, 8; his Power to
create Strength? 9; origin of the Belief in such a Character, 11; a
damnable Doctrine, 12; appears to an Indian, 25; prodigious Descent
of, 26; his Size, Complexion and Voice, 29-30; his Power, 41; very
uncertain, 42; "horrendous Operations," 46; got a Scourge for his Back,
47; not commissioned by a Witch, 58; denied, 76; can work Miracles, 74;
his Bounds set, 76; causes Plagues, 79; does not know every Language,
80; his Testimony not to be regarded, 82; the oldest Sinner, 90;
more about his Powers, 94-5; vast Numbers of, _ib._; a Free-willer,
118; commissioned by Contract, 128; only commissioned by God, 130-1;
no Father of Bastards, 196; an independent Power, 201; resembles
an Indian, iii, 70; described, 85; flies over an Apple-tree, 86;
Depredation in a Meeting-house, 89; performs Baptism, 112; his Manner
of Baptising, 113; vanquished by Sir W. Phips, 158; commissioned by
Witches, 162; meets with Astonishment, 209.
Douglass, William, I, lxix, lxx, iii, 125, 159.
Downer, Robert, Witness against Mrs. Martin, 180; tormented by her in
the Shape of a Cat, iii, 96.
Dragon, makes Wars, 67; insinuates Witchcraft, 124; a great Devil, 216;
hard after Ministers, 234; keeping Guard, ii, 79.
Drake, Nathan, Extracts from, I, xxxiii.
Dudley, Joseph, iii, 145; presides at the Trial of Glover, 153.
Dummer, Jeremiah, ii, 151.
Dunton, John, I, vi, viii, 217, ii, 109.
Durent, Ann, 142; William, _ib._
Dustin, Hannah.--See DASTIN.
EAMES, Rebecca, condemned and executed, iii, 45.
Earl, Robert, on Margaret Rule, ii, 69.
Earth, recedes from the Sun, 75; filled with firey-flying Serpents, 81.
Earthquakes, the Work of the Devil, 77, 78; happening all over Europe,
91, 92.
Easty, Isaac, committed for Witchcraft, iii, 16.
Easty, Mary, sentenced, iii, 44; her Execution, 46; dies protesting her
Innocence, 46-48; an excellent Woman, 211.
Elimas, Sorceries of, ii, 171.
Eliot, Edmund, 181, 182, iii, 97-8.
Eliot, John I, lxvi.
Elizabeth, Queen, Witchcraft in her Time, I, xxxix.
Elliott, Andrew, Apology of, iii, 135.
Ember-weeks, what they are, ii, 116.
Enchantments encountered, 9-48.
Endicott, Zerobbabel, 210.
English, Mary, committed, iii, 16; escapes, 50, 79; Testimony against,
126-7.
English, Philip, indicted, iii, 16; escapes from Prison, 50; Account
of, 177; an Episcopalian, 178; dies, 181.
Ethnics, Gentiles, ii, 119, iii, 164.
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