Category: History - Other
'With spells and charms I break the viper's jaw, Cleave solid rocks, oaks from their fissures draw, Whole woods remove, the airy mountains shake, Earth forced to groan, and ghosts from graves awake.' Ovid's Metamor.
It was then also noted, that if the afflicted went to approach her, they were flung down to the ground. The court counted themselves alarmed by these things, to inquire farther...
11. Part 11The foregoing has all the air of an exaggerated narrative, and it is probable that Dr Mather, in his love for the marvellous and wonderful, recorded the circumstances without du...
9. Part 9The late Dr Bentley of Salem, in his History of that town, published in the Historical Society's Collections, observes, that 'the scene was like a torrent, sudden, irresistible,...
8. Part 8'Several of the bewitched,' adds Dr Cotton Mather, 'gave in their testimony that they had been troubled with the apparitions of two women, who said they were Burroughs' two wive...
3. Part 3'On the 30th of the same month, at about four o'clock, P. M., Mrs B. came down stairs into the drawing room, which she had quitted a few minutes before, and on entering the room...
7. Part 7The first instance of reputed witchcraft in the town of Salem, took place in the family of Mr Parris, minister of Salem, and very soon after, one or two in the neighborhood were...
4. Part 4About the middle of the last century, there were reports of a ghost visiting a house in Cocklane, in the city of London. The whole city was, for many weeks, kept in a state of a...
5. Part 5A witch, in her personal character, was commonly an uncouth old woman, or hag. Her countenance was repulsive, her air and gait disgusting, and her general aspect and movements a...
6. Part 6The dreadful contagion was at length permitted to afflict the puritans of New England, and our revered ancestors were involved in a series of tragical events, and overwhelmed wi...
1. Part 1'With spells and charms I break the viper's jaw, Cleave solid rocks, oaks from their fissures draw, Whole woods remove, the airy mountains shake, Earth forced to groan, and ghos...
2. Part 2To a case analogous, in many respects, to that of his lordship, there are many witnesses still living in the city of Philadelphia. The contrast in the issue of the latter, serve...
12. Part 12It is incumbent upon us as patriots and philanthropists, as far as in our power, to guard the rising generation against every species of superstition, by a strong bulwark laid d...