Webber, Samuel, swears in Mr. Burroughs's Case, ii, 9, iii, 63.
Webster, Noah, Definition of Witchcraft, I, xiv.
Welch, Edward, a Searcher for Witchteats, iii, 39.
Wendell, Edward, II, xxvii.
Wentworth, Samuel, II, xxiv.
West, Abigail, II, xxv.
West, Thomas, Searcher for Witchteats, iii, 39.
Wheeler, Thomas, II, xxiii.
Whetford, ----, 208.
Whiston, William, I, lxxvi.
Whittier, J. G., on C. Mather, ii, 61, 160, iii, 163, 167, 174.
Wigglesworth, M., his Day of Doom, ii, 4.
Wild, John, iii, 16; his Wife Sarah, _ib._; executed, iii, 33.
Wild, ----, Captain, i, 137.
Wilds, Ephraim, Constable, iii, 105.
Wilkins, John, on Margaret Rule, ii, 69.
Wilkins, Richard, ii, 55, 56.
Wilkins, Thomas, ii, 143, iii, 216.
Willard, John, executed, iii, 38, 39; Escape and Capture, 40.
Willard, Samuel, Letter to, ii, 102, 151; cried out of, iii, 37; appeal
to by Procter, 40; his Agency in the Escape of Mr. English, 177-8.
Willard, Simon, testifies in Mr. Burroughs's Case, iii, 64.
William and Mary, I, lxxxiv, 25; Death of Mary, iii, 131.
Williams, Abigail, ii, 156, 158, iii, 7, 8, 9; at the Devil's
Sacrament, 13; cries out on Capt. Alden, 26; of Mrs. Bishop, 75;
Mr. Cory, 170, 179; Account of, 204; one of the Originators of the
Witchcraft Delusion, 209.
Williams, Daniel, on Margaret Rule, ii, 69.
Williams, Nathaniel, a Committee on Salem Affairs, ii, 151.
Williams, Thomas, opposes Mr. Parris, iii, 212.
Wilson, John, of Boston, 7.
Wilson, Sarah, accused, iii, 57.
Winchell, David, Sergent, iii, 219.
Winsor, Hannah, iii, 26.
Winthrop, Adam, Counsellor, 26.
Winthrop, Wait, 26, ii, 157, iii, 30; Judge, 125, 221.
Witchcraft, Cause of its Decline, I, iv; Works upon, v-x; Definitions
of, xi-xvi; taught in the Bible, xvi; how People's Eyes were opened,
xvii; how carried on, xxii; Practiced through Images or Pictures,
_ib._; Laws respecting, xxiv-v; the Bible upon, xvi, xxvii; Ideas
respecting, xxviii; opposed only by Infidels, xxix; Origin of, xxxi;
the Question which stayed its Progress, xxxii; Works upon, xxxiv-viii;
Law against, xxxix, xliii; not Spiritualism, lx; at the present Day,
lxxv; came near blowing up all the Churches, 17; Storms of, 20; thorny
Business, 29; will not be shammed, 34; disposed of, 42; in Lapland,
68-9; flourishes where are no Churches, 130-1; to worship the Devil,
243; a Relict of Heathen Learning, ii, 11; a principal ecclesiastical
Engine, 12; further defined, 56-7; how Prosecutions were eventually
checked, 110-11; sensible and evident, 105; Laws made against, iii,
124; repealed in England, 125; a Hobgoblin Monster, 137.
Witchteats, for the Devil to suck, ii, 57, 100; a horrid Barbarity to
search for, 132; Excrescences, iii, 124.
Witches, how made, I, xv; Nature of their Covenant with the Devil,
xxiii; the Devil a Slave to, xix; exist by God's Permission, xx; how to
detect, xxiii; vast Numbers executed, xv, xxvii; Punishment impossible,
xxxi; good Witches, xxxvii; one described by Spencer, xlix; different
Kinds, l, lii; how they contract with the Devil, liv-v; Manner of
living, lvi-viii; the Devil has made a dreadful Knot of, 18; prodigious
Meetings of, 19; commission the Devil, 29; Way of discovering, 37;
Confessions and Practices, 103; fairly executed, 107; Executions of,
in Suffolk and Essex, 112; thorny Business, 114; firey Serpents, 124;
in Denmark, 148; Witches impeach Witches, 157; Symptoms of Guilt, 162;
Conduct after the Manner of Congregational Churches, 202-3; by applying
the _Plastic Spirit_, render themselves and Tools invisible, 204; Cause
of Suicides, 207; nineteen executed, 217; can't say the Lord's Prayer,
232; their Power to commission Devils Questioned, ii, 7; Scriptures
do not describe it, _ib._, 8; commission Devils? 76; drive a Trade of
commissioning, 80-1; let fly Demons, 81; turn into Cats, Dogs, and
Cattle, 127; a Witch not known to Reason, 138; can commission Devils,
139; of Lancashire, reference to, iii, 69; steal Liquor, 110; some goe
on a Pole to a Witch-meeting, 120.
Witch-Circles, held by young Girls, iii, 208; Origin of the Salem
Troubles, _ib._, 209-10.
Witch-Hill, where the Execution of those accused of Witchcraft were
executed, iii, 45.
Wizard, a Witch, I, xii, xxxviii; reveals the Witch by the Devil's
Help, 40; the Soul that goeth a whoring after, ii, 154.
Wood, Martha, Witness, 192, iii, 110.
Woodbury, Abigail, iii, 79.
Woodward, John, I, lxxvi.
Woodward, W. E., I, viii, x-xvi.
Wolcott.--See WALCUTT.
Wool, Pall of, as Snow, I, lxxiii.
Wyllys, Edward, II, xii.
Transcriber's Note.
Variable spelling and hypheation have been retained. Minor punctuation
inconsistencies have been silently repaired. Footnotes were placed at
the end of each section. Footnote number 25 is missing in the original.
Misnumbered footnote on page 170 was corrected. The Index was
copied from the third volume.
Corrections.
The first line indicates the original, the second the correction.
p. ix:
at Witch Trials i England.
at Witch Trials in England.
p. liii:
of the one and rhe other,
of the one and the other,
p. lxxxviii:
An Accouut of the Case of the Goodwin
An Account of the Case of the Goodwin
Footnote 41:
dying in 1701, at the the Age of 70
dying in 1701, at the Age of 70
Footnote 45:
till the Reign of his present Majesty, Jame II,
till the Reign of his present Majesty, James II,
Footnote 98:
This is the Editor's _Corollorary_.
This is the Editor's _Corollary_.
Errata.
The first line indicates the original, the second how it should read.
p. 31:
but humbly recommend unto unto the Government
but humbly recommend unto the Government
p. 61:
preferr'd unto, might be the occcasion of his
preferr'd unto, might be the occasion of his
p. 175:
what passed at he first Examination
what passed at the first Examination