HIST 3000 - Witches and the Witch Craze in Early Modern Europe and America

"All Considered according to the Scriptures, History, Experience, and the Judgment of may Learned men. By Increase Mather,
President of Harvard Colledge at Cambridge, and Teacher of a Church at Boston in New-England." --- Increase Mather / University of Virginia

"A Compleat History of Magick, Sorcery, and Witchcraft Vol. II, Sorcery, and Witchcraft; Containing, I. The Trials of Several Witches at Salem in New-England. II. A Narrative of many Surprising and Amazing Sorceries, and Witchcrafts practised in Scotland. With the Learned Arguments of lawyers on both sides, at the Tryals of Seven Witches and the Remarkable Passages which happen'd at their Execution. III. The Surrey Demoniack. With all the Testimonies and Information Taken upon Oath relating thereunto. Volume II." --- Richard Boulton / Cornell University Library Witchcraft Collection

"Further Notes on the History of Witchcraft in Massachusetts, Containing Additional Evidence of the Passage of the Act of 1711, for Reversing the Attainders of the Witches; also, Affirming the Legality of the Special Court of Oyer and Terminer of 1692: with a Heliotype Plate of the Act of 1711, as Printed in 1713, and an Appendix of Documents, etc. By Abner Cheney Goodell, Jr. Reprinted, with Slight Alterations, from the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society." --- Abner Cheney Goodell

"By John Hale, Pastor of the Church of Christ in Beverley Anno Domini 1697, Boston in N. E.
Printed By B. Green and J. Allen, for Benjamin Elliot under the Town House, 1702." --- John Hale / University of Viriginia

A Brief and True Narrative, by Deodat Lawson, 1692 *** Letter of Thomas Brattle, F. R. S., 1692 *** Letters of Governor Phips to the Home Government, 1692-1693 *** From “The Wonders Of The Invisible World,” by Cotton Mather, 1693 *** From “More Wonders of the Invisible World,” by Robert Calef, 1700 *** A Modest Inquiry into the Nature of Witchcraft, By John Hale, 1702

"Notes on the History of Witchcraft in Massachusetts; with Illustrative Documents. From Proceedings at the Annual Meeting of the American Antiquarian Society, October 21, 1882. By George H. Moore." --- Cornell University

"Some Miscellany Observations On our present Debates respecting Witchcrafts, in a Dialogue Between S. & B. By P. E. and J. A. Philadelphia, Printed by William Bradford, for Hezekiah Usher. 1692." --- Massachusetts Historical Society

"The Witchcraft Delusion of 1692 by Gov. Thomas Hutchinson, From an Unpublished Manuscript (An Early Draft of his History of Massachusetts) in the Massachusetts Archives, With Notes by William Frederick Poole." --- Cornell University