I. Some Accounts of the Grievous Molestations, by DÆMONS and
WITCHCRAFTS, which have lately annoy'd the Countrey; and the Trials
of some eminent _Malefactors_ Executed upon occasion thereof: with
several Remarkable _Curiosities_ therein occurring.
II. Some Counsils, Directing a due Improvement of the terrible
things, lately done, by the Unusual & Amazing Range of EVIL
SPIRITS, in Our Neighbourhood: & the methods to prevent the
_Wrongs_ which those _Evil Angels_ may intend against all sorts of
people among us; especially in Accusations of the Innocent.
III. Some Conjectures upon the great EVENTS, likely to befall, the
WORLD in General, and NEW-ENGLAND in Particular; as also upon the
Advances of the TIME, when we shall see BETTER DAYES.
IV. A short Narrative of a late Outrage committed by a knot
of WITCHES in _Swedeland_, very much Resembling, and so far
Explaining, _That_ under which our parts of _America_ have laboured!
V. THE DEVIL DISCOVERED: In a Brief Discourse upon those
TEMPTATIONS, which are the more Ordinary _Devices_ of the Wicked
One.
By Cotton Mather.
_Boston_ Printed, and Sold by _Benjamin Harris_, 1693.
PUblished by the Special
Command of His EXCELLENCY,
the Governour
of the Province of
the Massachusetts-Bay in
New-England.
_The Wonders of the Invisible World:_
Being an Account of the
+TRYALS+
OF
Several WWitches,
Lately Excuted in
+NEW-ENGLAND+:
And of several remarkable Curiosities therein Occurring.
Together with,
I. Observations upon the Nature, the Number, and the Operations of
the Devils.
II. A short Narrative of a late outrage committed by a knot of
Witches in _Swede-Land_, very much resembling, and so far
explaining, that under which _New-England_ has laboured,
III. Some Councels directing a due Improvement of the Terrible
things lately done by the unusual and amazing Range of
_Evil-Spirits_ in _New-England_.
IV. A brief Discourse upon those _Temptations_ which are the more
ordinary Devices of Satan.
By _COTTON MATHER_.
Published by the Special Command of his EXCELLENCY the Govenour of the
Province of the _Massachusetts-Bay_ in _New-England_.
Printed first, at _Boston_ in _New-England_; and Reprinted at _London_,
for _John Dunton_, at the _Raven_ in the _Poultry_. 1693.
Imprimatur.
Decmb. 23.
1692.