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Cotton Mather's 'Memorable Providences'
Cotton Mather's 1689 book 'Memorable Providences, Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions' presented the Goodwin children's fits as proof of real witchcraft.
1689 CE · 42.36, -71.05 · status: account
The account
The book circulated widely in Massachusetts and gave a ready-made template for spectral affliction that reappeared in Salem Village in 1692.