The Wonders of the Invisible World

Originally published in Boston in 1693 following the Salem Witch Trials of 1692, this book contains reprints of both "Wonders of the Invisible World" and "A Further Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches," historically significant works by father-and-son Puritan ministers Increase and Cotton Mather. While both books served as cautionary tales, the younger author warned against what he believed to be the very real dangers of the devil and witchcraft in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, while his father’s essays are a condemnation of witchcraft hysteria and the use of “spectral evidence” in courts of law. This edition also includes woodcuts and engravings from several early American and European books on witchcraft.