WITCHCRAFT OF NEW ENGLAND
EXPLAINED BY
MODERN SPIRITUALISM.
BY
ALLEN PUTNAM, Esq.,
AUTHOR OF “BIBLE MARVEL WORKERS,” “NATTY, A SPIRIT,” “MESMERISM,
SPIRITUALISM, WITCHCRAFT, AND MIRACLE,” “AGASSIZ
AND SPIRITUALISM,” ETC.
SECOND EDITION.
BOSTON:
COLBY AND RICH, PUBLISHERS,
9 Montgomery Place.
1881.
COPYRIGHT,
1880,
By ALLEN PUTNAM, Esq.
Stereotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry,
No. 4 Pearl Street.
Preface, page 9.—References, 14.—Explanatory Note—Definitions, 15.
Mather and Calef, 25.—Account of Margaret Rule, 26.—Definitions ofWitchcraft, 29.—Commission of the Devil, 30.—Margaret assaulted bySpecters, 31.—Offered a Book, and pinched, 33.—Fasted, and perceived aMan liable to drown, 34.—Lifted, and saw a White Spirit, 35.—Rubbed byMather, 37.—Visited by Spies, 39.—Prayed with, and Brimstone was smelt,40.—Fowler charges Delirium Tremens, 41.—Affidavit of Avis, 44.—Calefbaffled, 46.—Levitation of R. H. Squires, 46.
Cotton Mather, 52.—Haven’s Account of Mercy Short, 71.
Robert Calef, 73.
Thomas Hutchinson, 76.
C. W. Upham, 80.
Margaret Jones, 85.—Winthrop’s Account of her, 87.—Hutchinson’s andUpham’s, 88.—Our own, 89.—J. W. Crosby’s Experience, 94.—Spirit ofProphecy, 99.—Spirit Child, 100.—Materialization, 102.—NewburyportSpirit Boy, 103.—Why Margaret was executed, 109.—Erroneous faith,114.—Margaret’s Case isolated, 119.—Epitaph, 121.
Ann Hibbins, 122.—Beach’s Letter, 123.—Hutchinson’s Account of Ann,...