The Wonders of the Invisible World: Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England, to which is added A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New-England WitchesMather, Cotton
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The Wonders of the Invisible World: Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England, to which is added A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches
Mather, Cotton
Witchcraft -- New England -- Early works to 1800
--p. 135: Ground-sel to Ground (but struck only the Ground) It appears
that the "-sel" was mistakenly introduced during printing, as the word
"Counsel" in the previous sentence was split over two lines and
hyphenated ("Coun-sel".) However, this mistake is not unique to this
reprint.
--p. 170: Berecovered to Be recovered
--p. 184: on to one (that rocks one to Sleep)
--p. 193: The Sweet Waters of Stealth? to The Sweet Waters of Stealth;
--p. 245: viz. to _viz._ (_viz._ That in an Orchard)
--p. 247: missing period added after Lonicer
--pp. 267-268: Although listed in the Table of Contents, Point 6
("Bewitched Persons have sometimes been struck down with the Look of
Dogs") was not numbered in the original, causing points 7 through 9 to
be numbered incorrectly. This was corrected.
--p. 267: Brochmand to Brockmand
--p. 273: extra "the" removed (so was the _Vulgar Probation_)
Two other problems were noted but left unchanged:
--p. 99: The biblical citation _Luc. 13.2, 3._ refers to Luke 13.2, 3.
--p. 268: Mather cites Deut. 35.30, but Deuteronomy only has 34
Chapters. The context suggests he may have meant Numbers 35.30.
--Footnote [77]: _Delri. & Malderus._ to _Delrio & Malderus._
Also note that spelling--other than the corrections noted above--has
been left as it appeared in the original copy of this book. This
includes many archaic spellings that appear only once, such as thir (p.
214), doe's (p. 195), and ha's (p. 173).
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