Wonders of the Invisible World
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This article is about the 1693 book. For other Wonders of the World, see Wonders of the World (disambiguation).
Wonders of the Invisible World was a book published in 1693 by Cotton Mather, defending Mather's role in the witchhunt conducted in Salem, Massachusetts, and espousing the belief that witchcraft was an evil magical power. Mather saw witches as tools of the devil in Satan's battle to "overturn this poor plantation, the Puritan colony", and prosecution of witches as a way to secure God's blessings for the colony.
Its arguments largely derivative of Saducismus Triumphatus by Joseph Glanvill. A Glanvill's book was in Mather's library when he died.
[edit] External links
- Wonders of the Invisible World in etext.
- The Wonders of the Invisible World(1693 edition) in PDF format.
