Cotton Mathers's Wonders of the Invisible World: An Authoritative Edition

• Main Author: Wise, Paul Melvin
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University 2005
• Subjects: folk magic; folklore; witchcraft; Salem; Cotton Mather; Sweden; Lapland; Algonquian Indians; Native Americans; Samuel Parris; jimson weed; thorn apple; datura stramonium; poisoning; initiation ceremonies; nightmares; huskanaw; Wonders of the Invisible World; fly-agaric mushroom; reindeer; Sami; shamanism; drums; Paul Wise; Georgia State University; Doctor of Philosophy; sami
• Online Access: https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/english_diss/5; https://doi.org/10.57709/1059531; https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/context/english_diss/article/1004/viewcontent/wise_paul_m_200512_phd.pdf

ABSTRACT Although Cotton Mather, as the official chronicler of the 1692 Salem witch trials, is infamously associated with those events, and excerpts from his apologia on Salem, Wonders of the Invisible World, are widely anthologized today, no annotated critical edition of the entire work has appeare...