1. Religion in Colonial Literature
"The Wonders of the Invisible World" by Cotton Mather In The Wonders of the Invisible World, Cotton Mather exemplifies the Puritan beliefs concerning God and the devil's ongoing interactions with humanity by way of his interpretations of the Salem Witch Trials. ... Mather claimed that the outbreak of witchcraft in Salem was one of these said devices as represented by "an army of devils who have horribly broke into upon the place which is the center... the firstborn of our English settlements" (Franklin et. al., 2012, p. 328). Mather then attributes every illness, mal...
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