The Reader

BY FRANCES HILL CO NTENTS

Acknowledgments xiii The Salem Witch-hunt Death Toll xv Introduction xvii Chronology xix

PART I THE BACKGROUND, I

1 Witchcraft 3 From: James Sprenger and Heinrich Kramer, Malleus Maleficarum (1486), 4 From: William Perkins, A Discourse on the Damned Art of Witchcraft, So Far Forth as It Is Revealed in the Scriptures and Manifest by True Experience (1608), 5 From: The Wonderful Discovery of the Witchcrafts of Margaret and Phillip Flower, Daughters of Joan Flower near Beaver Castle: Executed at Lincoln, March 11, 1618 (1619), 7 From: , An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences (1684), 11 From: , Memorable Providences, Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions (1689), 17

2 The Bay Colony 25 From: The Winthrop Papers, volume 2, Concluding section of The Model of Christian Charity (1931), 26

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From: Kenneth B. Murdock, Michael Wigglesworth, eds., The Day of Doom, or A Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgment, with a Short Discourse on Eternity (1929), 27 From: Cotton Mather, Corderius Americanus, An essay Upon the Good Education of Children, in a Funeral Sermon Upon Mr. Ezekiel Cheever, Master of the Free School in (1708), 33 From: Records and files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, volume I, 1636-1656 (1911), 34 From: George Bishop, Judged (1667), 37 From: Robert Roules's signed deposition to the General Court, July 17th 1677',41 From: A Narrative of the Captivity, Sufferings and Removes of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1682), 44 From: The Salem Village Book of Record: 1672-1697, 46

PART II THE WITCH-HUNT, 55

The Guilt of Innocent Blood 59 From: , A Modest Enquiry into the Nature of Witchcraft (1702), 59 From: , More Wonders of the Invisible World (1700), 61 From: , A Brief and True Narrative of Witchcraft at Salem Village (1692), 61 From: Robert Calef, More Wonders of the Invisible World (1700), 66 From: , letter (1692), 85 From: Governor Phipps's, Letters to the Home Government (1692-1693), 100 From: Robert Calef, More Wonders of the Invisible World, 103 From: The Confession of (1706), 108 Contents ix

PART III THE HUNTER AND THE HUNTED, 115

4 (1653-1720) 117 From: Charles W. Upham, Salem Witchcraft (1689), 118 From: Salem Village Book of Record, 119 From: More Wonders of the Invisible World, 119 From: Salem Village Book of Record, 120 From: Samuel Parris's Sermon Notebook, 124 From: Salem Village Church Book of Record, 127 From: Samuel Parris's Sermon Notebook, 129 From: Salem Village Church Book of Record, 132

George Burroughs (1650-1692) 177 Letter from Bryan Pendleton to Governor Leverett of Massachusetts, August 13,1676,177 Depositions to the County Court, in the case of Lieutenant John Putnam versus Mr. (1683), 178 Return of the marshall to the court, 180 Letters from George Burroughs and eight others to the Governor's Council in Boston, 181 Letter of to and , 184 Complaint, letter, arrest warrant, examination, deposition, and indictments to the Court of Oyer and Terminer, regarding George Burroughs, 185 From: Cotton Mather, Wonders of the Invisible World, 204 Contents

PART IV THE HI STORI ANS,213

Myth and Reality 215 From: Cotton Mather, The Life of His Excellency Sir William Phipps,Knt. (1697), 215 From: Thomas Hutchinson, The History of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay (1765), 216 From: George Bancroft, The History of the United States of America (1834), 219 From: Charles W. Upham, Salem Witchcraft (1867), 227 From: Samuel G. Drake, Annals of Witchcraft in New England (1869), 229 From: M. V. B. Perley, A Short History of the Salem Witchcraft Trials (1911), 229 From: Winfield S. Nevins, Witchcraft in Salem Village (1916), 230 From: Marion Starkey, The Devil in Massachusetts (1949), 231 From: Chadwick Hansen, Witchcraft at Salem (1969), 233 From: Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum, Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft (1974), 251 From: Linnda R. Caporael, Ergotism: The Satan Loosed in Salem? (1976), 257 From: James E. Kences, Some Unexplored Relationships of Essex County Witchcraft to the Indian Wars of 1675 and 1687 (1984), 270 From: Enders A. Robinson, The Devil Discovered (1991), 286 From: Frances Hill, A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials (1995), 294 From: Elaine G. Breslaw. , Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies (1996), 299 Contents xi

PART V FlCTIO N, 307

7 Pulp to Masterpieces 309 From: John Neal, Rachel Dyer (1828), 309 From: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown (1835), 314 From: Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables (1851), 325 From: J. W. de Forest, Witching Times (1857), 341 From: John Greenleaf Whittier, Calef in Boston (1849), 351 From: H. W. Longfellow, of the Salem Farms (1868), act 1,353 From: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Giles Corey (1893), act 3, 364 From: Esther Forbes, Mirror for Witches (1928), 375 From: Esther Hammand, The Road to Endor (1940), 378 From: , "Why I Wrote ," (1996), 383

Notes 391 Bibliography 397 Index 401