Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism

by Allen Putnam

Overview

In 1693, Mather wrote an account of afflictions which Margaret Rule, of Boston, then about seventeen years old, began to endure on the 10th of September of that year. This production drew forth the first open shot at the then prevalent definitions of witchcraft—at the assumed source of power to produce it—at the adopted methods of proceedings against it, and at treatment of persons on whom that crime was charged.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940161105313
Publisher:	Black Lizard Press
Publication date:	10/21/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

The late nineteenth century was something of a heyday for inquiries into the supernatural, replete with spiritualists, seances, mediums, and purported communications with the great beyond. In this volume, Allen Putnam attempts to project the tenets and beliefs of the spiritualism movement back onto the events that transpired in New England centuries before in order to gain new insight into the accusations of witchcraft that define that moment in history.