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Records and files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, volume I, 1636-1656 (1911) Ezekiel Cheever, Master of the Free School in Boston (1708) The Day of Doom, or A Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgement, with a Short Discourse on Eternity (1929)Ĭorderius Americanus, An essay Upon the Good Education of Children, in a Funeral Sermon Upon Mr. The Winthrop Papers, volume 2, Concluding section of The Model of Christian Charity (1931) Memorable Providences, Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions (1689) Increase Mather, An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences (1684) The Wonderful Discovery of the Witchcrafts of Margaret and Phillip Flower, Daughters of Joan Flower near Beaver Castle: Executed at Lincoln, Ma(1619)

For those fascinated by the Salem witch trials, this is compelling reading and the sourcebook.A Discourse on the Damned Art of Witchcraft, So Far Forth as It Is Revealed in the Scriptures and Manifest by True Experience (1608) Always drawing on firsthand documents, she illustrates the historical background to the witchhunt and shows how the trials have been represented, and sometimes distorted, by historians-and how they have fired the imaginations of poets, playwrights, and novelists. In The Salem Witch Trials Reader, Frances Hill provides and astutely comments upon the actual documents from the trial-examinations of suspected witches, eyewitness accounts of "Satanic influence," as well as the testimony of those who retained their reason and defied the madness. Within two years, twenty men and women are hanged or pressed to death and over a hundred others imprisoned and impoverished. Against the backdrop of a Puritan theocracy threatened by change, in a population terrified not only of eternal damnation but of the earthly dangers of Indian massacres and recurrent smallpox epidemics, a small group of girls denounces a black slave and others as worshipers of Satan.