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'Wonders of the Invisible World'
Cotton Mather's 1693 book defended the Salem prosecutions, arguing that witches served the devil and that punishing them kept God's favour on the colony.
1693 CE · 42.36, -71.06 · status: account
The account
Much of it drew on Joseph Glanvill's 'Saducismus Triumphatus'. Boston merchant Robert Calef answered it with a scathing refutation in 1700.