From "An essay for the recording of illustrious providences" ... by Increase Mather, 1684.--The New York cases of Hall and Harrison, 1665, 1670.--"Lithobolia, or The stone-throwing devil", by Richard Chamberlain, 1698.--The Pennsylvania cases of Mattson, Hendrickson, and Guard, 1684, 1701.--"Memorable providences, relating to witchcrafts and possessions", by Cotton Mather, 1689.--"A brief and true narrative of witchcraft at Salem village", by Deodat Lawson, 1692.--Letter of Thomas Brattle, F.R.S., 16902.--Letters of Governor Phips to the home government, 1692, 1693.--From "The wonders of the invisible world", by Cotton Mather, 1693.--A brand pluck'd out of the burning", by Cotton Mather, 1693.--From "More wonders of the invisible world", by Robert Calef.--From "A modest inquiry into the nature of witchcraft", by John Hale, 1702.--The Virginia case of Grace Sherwood, 1706.

From An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences -- Preternatural Happenings in New England / Increase Mather -- Case of Ann Cole, of Hartford, 1662 / Increase Mather -- Case of Elizabeth Knap, of Groton, 1671 / Increase Mather -- Case of the Morses, at Newbury, 1679-1681 / Increase Mather -- The Tedworth Case, in England, 1661-1663 / Increase Mather -- Case of Nicholas Desborough, of Hartford, 1683 / Increase Mather -- Case of George Walton, at Portsmouth, 1682 / Increase Mather -- Case of the Hortados, at Salmon Falls, 1682-1683 / Increase Mather -- The New York Cases of Hall and Harrison, 1665, 1670 -- Case of Ralph and Mary Hall, of Setauket, 1665 -- Case of Katharine Harrison, 1670 -- Lithobolia, or the Stone-Throwing Devil -- Dedicatory Letter and Verses / Richard Chamberlain -- Why the Author relates this Stone throwing and why he believes it Witchcraft / Richard Chamberlain -- The Quaker George Walton and his Neighbors at Great Island (Portsmouth) / Richard Chamberlain -- The Beginning of the Stone throwing (June, 1682) / Richard Chamberlain -- The Author himself a Victim / Richard Chamberlain -- His Serenade and its Sequel; the Black Cat / Richard Chamberlain -- The Deviltries at Great Bay / Richard Chamberlain -- Notable Witness / Richard Chamberlain -- The Author again an Object of Attack / Richard Chamberlain -- Injuries to Others, in House and Field / Richard Chamberlain -- The Lull in August; the Final Stone throwing in September / Richard Chamberlain -- The Author's Conclusions / Richard Chamberlain -- The Pennsylvania Cases of Mattson, Hendrickson, and Guard, 1684, 1701 -- Case of Margaret Mattson and Gertrude Hendrickson, 1684 -- Case of Robert Guard and his Wife, 1701 -- Memorable Providences, Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions -- Dedicatory Epistle to the Hon. Wait Winthrop / Cotton Mather -- The Boston Ministers to the Reader / Cotton Mather -- The Introduction / Cotton Mather -- Case of the Goodwin Children, at Boston, 1688-1689 / Cotton Mather -- The Goodwin Family / Cotton Mather -- The Trouble with the Laundress and her Mother / Cotton Mather -- The Strange Malady of the Children / Cotton Mather -- The Appeal to the Ministers and to the Magistrates; Arrest and Trial of Goody Glover / Cotton Mather -- Her Condemnation and Execution / Cotton Mather -- The Continued Fits of the Children / Cotton Mather -- Efforts of the Ministers to help them / Cotton Mather -- The Author takes the Eldest Girl to his Home; her Behavior / Cotton Mather -- His Experiements with her / Cotton Mather -- Her Imaginary Journeys / Cotton Mather -- Strange Power over her of the Author's Study / Cotton Mather -- The Ministers' Day of Prayer and its Effect / Cotton Mather -- The Author tests the Linguistic Powers of the Demons / Cotton Mather -- And the Power of Scripture and Prayer to quell them / Cotton Mather -- Their Gradual Departure / Cotton Mather -- What the Author has learned from it all / Cotton Mather -- Postscript: the Devils return, but are again dispelled by Prayer / Cotton Mather -- Goodwin's Account of his Children's Bewitchment / Cotton Mather -- Case of Deacon Philip Smith, of Hadley, 1684 / Cotton Mather -- Case of Mary Johnson, of Hartford, 1648 / Cotton Mather -- Case of the Boy at Tocutt (Branford) / Cotton Mather -- Other Bewitchments / Cotton Mather -- A Brief and True Narrative of Witchcraft at Salem Village -- The Bookseller to the Reader / Deodat Lawson -- The Author's Visit to Salem Village / Deodat Lawson -- The Antics of the Afflicted / Deodat Lawson -- Examination of Goodwife Corey / Deodat Lawson -- Goodwife Putnam's Afflictions / Deodat Lawson -- Examination of Goodwife Nurse / Deodat Lawson -- Tales told by Elizabeth Parris, Dorcas Good, Abigail Williams, Mercy Lewis / Deodat Lawson -- Goodwife Cloyse slams the Meeting-house Door / Deodat Lawson -- extraordinary Things about the Afflicted / Deodat Lawson -- About the Accused / Deodat Lawson -- Letter of Thomas Brattle, F.R.S, 1692 -- His Reasons for writing frankly / Thomas Brattle -- The Procedure at Salem; the Afflicted and their Evidence / Thomas Brattle -- The Confessors / Thomas Brattle -- Indictment and Trial / Thomas Brattle -- Spectre Evidence / Thomas Brattle -- The Executions / Thomas Brattle -- Things to Wonder at / Thomas Brattle -- The Troubles at Andover / Thomas Brattle -- Zeal of the Judges / Thomas Brattle -- The Doubters and their Reasons / Thomas Brattle -- Extent of the Convistions; Hope from the impending General Court / Thomas Brattle -- Efforts of certain Ministers to check the Matter / Thomas Brattle -- Further Reasons for Hesitation / Thomas Brattle -- Why the Confessions cannot be trusted / Thomas Brattle -- Letters of Governor Phips to the Home Government, 1692, 1693 -- Letter of October 12, 1692 : the Witch Panic as he found it, and what he did about it / Governor Phips -- Letter of February 21, 1693 : Recapitulation of his Earlier Report; how the Panic was brought to an End / Governor Phips -- From The Wonders of the Invisible World -- The Author's Defence / Cotton Mather -- His Relation to the Salem Trials / Cotton Mather -- The Trial of George Burroughs / Cotton Mather -- The Trial of Bridget Bishop / Cotton Mather -- The Trial of Susanna Martin / Cotton Mather -- The Trial of Elizabeth How / Cotton Mather -- The Trial of Martha Carrier / Cotton Mather -- Curiosities : I. The Devil's Imitation of Divine Things / Cotton Mather -- Curiosities : II. The Witches' making themselves and their Tools invisible / Cotton Mather -- Curiosities : III. The Bewitched delivered by the Execution of the Witches / Cotton Mather -- Curiosities : IV. Apparitions reveal Old Murders by the Witches / Cotton Mather -- Certificate of the Judges to the Truth of this Account / Cotton Mather -- A Brand Pluck'd out of the Burning -- The Story of Mercy Short / Cotton Mather -- Her Bewitchment / Cotton Mather -- How the Devil and his Spectres appeared to her / Cotton Mather -- How they tormented her / Cotton Mather -- Her Discourses to them / Cotton Mather -- How her Tortures were turned into Frolics / Cotton Mather -- The Shapes worn by the Spectres / Cotton Mather -- Her Remarkable Answers and Strange Knowledge of Scripture / Cotton Mather -- The Methods used for her Deliverance / Cotton Mather -- Her Deliverance on New Year's Eve / Cotton Mather -- The Renewal of her Troubles after Seven Weeks / Cotton Mather -- The Strange Books brought by the Spectres for her signing / Cotton Mather -- The Books used at their Witch-meetings / Cotton Mather -- The Helpful Spirit, and how he aided her against the Others / Cotton Mather -- The Prayer-meetings and her Final Deliverance / Cotton Mather --

From More Wonders of the Invisible World -- The Epistle to the Reader: the Author's Reasons for his Book / Robert Calef -- His Materials / Robert Calef -- Cotton Mather's Letter of Enclosure / Robert Calef -- His Another Brand Pluckt out of the Burning (the Story of Margaret Rule) / Robert Calef -- Introductory Anecdote of the Devil's Appearance to an Indian / Robert Calef -- Who Margaret Rule was; the Beginning of her Bewitchment / Robert Calef -- How she was tortured by Spectres / Robert Calef -- And by the Devil / Robert Calef -- Her Remarkable Fastings; how she was further tormented / Robert Calef -- Her Strange Revelations as to the Spectres / Robert Calef -- The White Spirit and his Comfortings / Robert Calef -- Her Pastor's Efforts for her / Robert Calef -- Her Tormentors' Attempt with Poppets / Robert Calef -- The Author's Reply to his Revilers / Robert Calef -- The Good that has come of the Affair / Robert Calef -- Part II: Calef's Correspondence with Mather / Robert Calef -- His Letter of Jan. 11, 1694, enclosing his Journal of his Visit to Margaret Rule on Sept. 13 / Robert Calef -- And on Sept. 19 / Robert Calef -- And rehearsing his earlier Letters of Sept. 29 and Nov. 24 / Robert Calef -- Mather's Reply (Jan. 15) / Robert Calef -- Enclosed Certificates of Witnesses to Margaret Rule's Levitation / Robert Calef -- Calef's Rejoinder (Jan. 18) / Robert Calef -- Part V: The Salem Witchcraft / Robert Calef -- The Rev. Mr. Parris and the Divisions at Salem Village / Robert Calef -- The Strange Behavior of Divers Young Persons and its Ascription to Witchcraft / Robert Calef -- Mr. Lawson's Visit and his Account; the Examinations of the Accused / Robert Calef -- Mr. Lawson's Sermon; the Solemn Fast at Salem / Robert Calef -- The White Man; Goodwife Cloyse and the Slammed Door; the Public Examination of April 11 / Robert Calef -- The Lord's Prayer as an Ordeal; Specimen of a Mittimus / Robert Calef -- Arrival of Governor Phips; the Political Events leading to it / Robert Calef -- Mrs. Cary's Commitment and Escape / Robert Calef -- Captain John Alden's Narrative / Robert Calef -- Opening of the Special Court at Salem (June 2) / Robert Calef -- Bridget Bishop's Fate; Advice of the Boston Ministers / Robert Calef -- The Trials of June 30; Fate of Sarah good; of Rebecca Nurse / Robert Calef -- The August Trials and Executions; George Burroughs, John Willard, the Procters / Robert Calef -- Procter's Letter to the Ministers / Robert Calef -- Old Jacobs and his Grand-daughter; her Confession and Retraction / Robert Calef -- The September Trials / Robert Calef -- The Coreys; Wardwell; Mary Esty and her Letter / Robert Calef -- Mrs. Hale accused; Mr. Hale's Change of View / Robert Calef -- Seizure of the Property of Fugitives / Robert Calef -- Flight of George Jacobs and Fate of his Family / Robert Calef -- The Andover Witchcraft / Robert Calef -- The Gloucester Witchcraft / Robert Calef -- End of the Special Court; Summary of its Work / Robert Calef -- How the Accused were brought to confess; Protestation of the Andover Women / Robert Calef -- Criticism of Cotton Mather's Account of the Trials / Robert Calef -- The Laws in Force against Witchcraft / Robert Calef -- The new Superior Court and how it dealt with the Witch Cases (Jan.-April, 1693) / Robert Calef -- Governor Phips's General Pardon / Robert Calef -- The Benham Case in Connecticut (1697); the Massachusetts Proclamation of a General Fast (Dec., 1696) / Robert Calef -- Judge Sewall's Public Penitence / Robert Calef -- The Penitence of the Jurors / Robert Calef -- Criticism of Cotton Mather's Life of Phips (1697) / Robert Calef -- And of its Author's Teaching as to Witchcraft / Robert Calef -- Calef's own Convictions as to the Matter / Robert Calef -- From A Modest Inquiry into the Nature of Witchcraft -- An Epistle to the Reader / John Higginson -- Mr. Hale's Preface to the Christian Reader / John Hale -- The Origin and Nature of Devils / John Hale -- Summary of New England Witch Cases, 1648-1692 / John Hale -- Margaret Jones; Mrs. Lake / John Hale -- Mrs. Kendal / John Hale -- Mrs. Hibbins; Mary Johnson / John Hale -- The Principles acted on in these Convictions / John Hale -- Mrs. Morse; Goody Glover / John Hale -- The Salem Witchcraft; its Beginnings / John Hale -- Tituba's Confession / John Hale -- Conscientiousness of the Judges; the Authorities used by them / John Hale -- Influence of the Confessions; their Agreement with the Accusations and with each other; their Circumstantiality / John Hale -- Specimen Confessions: Deliverance Hobbs's / John Hale -- Ann Foster's; Mary Lacy's / John Hale -- William Barker's / John Hale -- Their Testimony against themselves and against each other / John Hale -- How Doubt at last was stirred / John Hale -- Wherein lay the Error / John Hale -- Like Mistakes in Other Places / John Hale -- The Application of the Whole / John Hale -- The Virginia Case of Grace Sherwood, 1706 -- Her First Trial; the Jury of Women -- The appeal to the Governor and Council; the County Court instructed to make Further Inquiry -- Her Second Trial; the Ducking -- The Verdict; her Detention for Trial by the General Court --