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Salem witchcaft : comprising More wonders of the invisible world, collected by Robert Calef, and Wonders of the invisible world, by Cotton Mather together with notes and explanations / by Samuel P. Fowler.

Cotton Mather, Robert Calef, Samuel P. Fowler · 1865 · Boston : William Veazie, 1865. · 3 pictures

Salem Witchcraft, a 1865 Boston reprint by William Veazie of Cotton Mather's and Robert Calef's accounts of the 1692 Salem witch trials, edited with notes by Samuel P. Fowler. The three pictures are small vignettes: a witch flying past a crescent moon toward a black cat, a hand pouring from a lamp on a book, and a bearded face among scrolling foliage. The black-and-white line work with dark hatching and a tan ground suits designers wanting period witchcraft or gothic motifs, and the ornamental border shows how decorative 19th-century type ornament was built.

17th century · Witchcraft · Magic · Massachusetts · Salem

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