... calling the witnesses liars) were then accused themselves. In the frenzy to follow, by 1690 two hundred persons were in jail, fifty in prison and twenty executed (along with 2 dogs). Cotton Mather, a leader of the group, quietly led the way in bringing this crisis to an end. The devotion they held in maintaining a religious society in isolation fueled the fire of the ... published more than two hundred years later). The first book is known as the first American bestseller. It contains an expression of the basic Puritan beliefs described earlier. Cotton Mather, a member of the powerful M...

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... of the works produced in Puritan Age. Almost each and every work of the respective age was with purpose and serious message. For Example: "The Christian Philosopher" by W. Cotton Mather was about the Newtonian science and its relation with religion. Thus, the work other than histories and religion was also related to the serious and intellectual discussions. Similarly, he stated ... ...

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... the Puritan ideology that had given rise to, among others, the ill-fated witch-hunts. Such a reading could be also supported by the fact that Ichabod "was a perfect master of Cotton Mather's History of New-England Witchcraft, in which, by the way, he most firmly and potently believed". Ichabod fails in his matrimony designs only due to his fancy of being run ... ...

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