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TheWitchcraft DelusionInNew England
Woodward's
Historical Series.
No. V.
THE
Witchcraft Delusion
IN
NEW ENGLAND:
ITS
Rise, Progress, and Termination,
AS EXHIBITED BY
Dr. COTTON MATHER,
IN
THE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD;
AND BY
Mr. ROBERT CALEF,
IN HIS
MORE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD.
WITH A
Preface, Introduction, and Notes,
By SAMUEL G. DRAKE.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
The Wonders of the Invisible World.
PRINTED FOR W. ELLIOT WOODWARD,
ROXBURY, MASS.
MDCCCLXVI.
No. 103
Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1865,
By SAMUEL G. DRAKE,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States
for the District of Massachusetts.
Edition in this size 280 Copies.
Munsell, Printer.
TO
MY MORE THAN BROTHER,
HARLOW ROYS,
WHO AT ALL TIMES
ALIKE IN PROSPERITY AND ADVERSITY
HAS STOOD MY FRIEND,
WHO WHEN MY STEPS SEEMED RAPIDLY
DESCENDING INTO THE "DARK VALLEY"
AND
"THE RIVER" WITH THE "BOATMAN PALE"
WERE CLOSE BEFORE ME,
CHEERED ME BY HIS PRESENCE
AND HELD ME BACK BY THE GRASP OF HIS STRONG HAND,
WARM WITH LIFE AND LOVE,
IN TOKEN OF AN AFFECTION WHICH
STRONG AT FIRST,
AS YEARS PASS AND WE GROW OLDER
GROWS MORE INTENSE,
I DEDICATE THESE VOLUMES.
W.
PREFATORY.
HE Object in giving to thePublic this new Edition ofthe Wonders of the InvisibleWorld, is mainly to preserve anaccurate Reprint of that wonderfulBook. At the same Time it is intendedto show that its Author has unjustlybeen singled out and held up to everlastingScorn, as though he had been theInstigator of the whole Mischief; thatfrom his high Standing socially he wasmore prominent than any other Man, andthat this occasioned his being especiallyheld responsible is clearly true. His readyPen also largely contributed to place himin the front Rank of those whom thatwoeful Delusion led captive; he havingiv