Download or read book Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits Personating Men Witchcrafts Infallible Proofs of Guilt in Such as are Accused with that Crime written by Increase Mather and published by . This book was released on 1693 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits Personating Men Witchcrafts Infallible Proofs of Guilt in Such as are Accused with that Crime All Considered According to the Scriptures written by Increase Mather and published by . This book was released on 1693 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits written by Increase Mather and published by . This book was released on 1693-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits Personating Men Witchcrafts Infallible Proofs of Guilt in Such as are Accused with that Crime written by Increase Mather and published by . This book was released on 1693 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the full-text of "Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits Personating Men, Witchcrafts, Infallible Proofs of Guilt in Such as Are Accused With That Crime," written by American Congregational clergyman Increase Mather (1639-1723) regarding the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. The text is provided by the Electronic Text Center of the University of Virginia.
Download or read book Tales of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits written by Increase Mather and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03-29 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1693 Edition.
Download or read book A Further Account of the Tryals of the New England Witches written by Increase Mather and published by . This book was released on 1693 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wonders of the Invisible World written by Cotton Mather and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Damned Women written by Elizabeth Reis and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-18 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her analysis of the cultural construction of gender in early America, Elizabeth Reis explores the intersection of Puritan theology, Puritan evaluations of womanhood, and the Salem witchcraft episodes. She finds in those intersections the basis for understanding why women were accused of witchcraft more often than men, why they confessed more often, and why they frequently accused other women of being witches. In negotiating their beliefs about the devil's powers, both women and men embedded womanhood in the discourse of depravity.Puritan ministers insisted that women and men were equal in the sight of God, with both sexes equally capable of cleaving to Christ or to the devil. Nevertheless, Reis explains, womanhood and evil were inextricably linked in the minds and hearts of seventeenth-century New England Puritans. Women and men feared hell equally but Puritan culture encouraged women to believe it was their vile natures that would take them there rather than the particular sins they might have committed.Following the Salem witchcraft trials, Reis argues, Puritans' understanding of sin and the devil changed. Ministers and laity conceived of a Satan who tempted sinners and presided physically over hell, rather than one who possessed souls in the living world. Women and men became increasingly confident of their redemption, although women more than men continued to imagine themselves as essentially corrupt, even after the Great Awakening.
Download or read book SALEM POSSESSED written by Paul Boyer and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tormented girls writhing in agony, stern judges meting out harsh verdicts, nineteen bodies swinging on Gallows Hill. The stark immediacy of what happened in 1692 has obscured the complex web of human passion which climaxed in the Salem witch trials From rich and varied sources—many neglected and unknown—Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum give us a picture of the people and events more intricate and more fascinating than any other in the massive literature. It is a story of powerful and deeply divided families and of a community determined to establish an independent identity—beset by restraints and opposition from without and factional conflicts from within—and a minister whose obsessions helped to bring this volatile mix to the flash point. Not simply a dramatic and isolated event, the Salem outbreak has wider implications for our understanding of developments central to the American experience: the disintegration of Puritanism, the pressures of land and population in New England towns, the problems besetting farmer and householder, the shifting role of the church, and the powerful impact of commercial capitalism.
Download or read book Witchcraft Trials written by Deborah Kent and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enhanced with sidebars and colorful maps, each book in this engaging series focuses on an event or era in American history, spanning from the time before Columbus' arrival to the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Download or read book A Further Account of the Tryals of the New England Witches To which is Added Cases of Conscience Concerning Witchcrafts and Evil Spirits Personating Men written by Increase Mather and published by . This book was released on 1693 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Further Account of the Tryals of the New England Witches written by Increase Mather and published by . This book was released on 1693 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Further Account of the Tryals of the New England Witches With the Observations of a Person who was Upon the Place Several Days when the Suspected Witches Were First Taken Into Examination To which is Added Cases of Conscience Concerning Witchcrafts and Evil Spirits Personating Men Written at the Request of the Ministers of New England By Increase Mather President of Harvard Colledge written by and published by . This book was released on 1693 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Devil in the Shape of a Woman Witchcraft in Colonial New England written by Carol F. Karlsen and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1998-04-17 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A pioneer work in…the sexual structuring of society. This is not just another book about witchcraft." —Edmund S. Morgan, Yale University Confessing to "familiarity with the devils," Mary Johnson, a servant, was executed by Connecticut officials in 1648. A wealthy Boston widow, Ann Hibbens was hanged in 1656 for casting spells on her neighbors. The case of Ann Cole, who was "taken with very strange Fits," fueled an outbreak of witchcraft accusations in Hartford a generation before the notorious events at Salem. More than three hundred years later, the question "Why?" still haunts us. Why were these and other women likely witches—vulnerable to accusations of witchcraft and possession? Carol F. Karlsen reveals the social construction of witchcraft in seventeenth-century New England and illuminates the larger contours of gender relations in that society.
Download or read book Witchcraft and Society in England and America 1550 1750 written by Marion Gibson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-10-12 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of materials, including works of literature as well as historical documents, this work provides a broad view of how witches and magicians were represented in print and manuscript. It presents the voices of witches, accusers, ministers, physicians, poets, dramatists, magistrates, and witchfinders from both sides of the Atlantic.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Valuable Private Library of the Late Charles Deane written by Charles Deane and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
