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    <subTitle>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</subTitle>
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    <namePart>Mather, Cotton</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1663-1728</namePart>
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    <namePart>Mather, Increase</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1639-1723</namePart>
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  <abstract>"The Wonders of the Invisible World" by Cotton Mather is a book published in 1693. It defended Mather's role in the Salem witch trials, arguing that witchcraft was an evil magical power and witches were tools of Satan attempting to destroy the Puritan colony. Mather presented trial testimonies, including Martha Carrier's case, positioning himself as an unbiased historian while omitting any defenses. The work advocates for witch prosecution as a means to secure God's blessings for the colony. (This is an automatically generated summary.)</abstract>
  <note>Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonders_of_the_Invisible_World</note>
  <note>Release date is 2009-04-06</note>
  <note>Produced by Julie Barkley, S.D., and the Online Distributed
Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net</note>
  <note>Original publication data not identified</note>
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    <topic>Witchcraft -- New England -- Early works to 1800</topic>
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