CONTENTS.

Preface, page [9].—References, [14].—Explanatory Note—Definitions, [15].

Mather and Calef, [25].—Account of Margaret Rule, [26].—Definitions of Witchcraft, [29].—Commission of the Devil, [30].—Margaret assaulted by Specters, [31].—Offered a Book, and pinched, [33].—Fasted, and perceived a Man liable to drown, [34].—Lifted, and saw a White Spirit, [35].—Rubbed by Mather, [37].—Visited by Spies, [39].—Prayed with, and Brimstone was smelt, [40].—Fowler charges Delirium Tremens, [41].—Affidavit of Avis, [44].—Calef baffled, [46].—Levitation of R. H. Squires, [46].

Cotton Mather, [52].—Haven’s Account of Mercy Short, [71].

Robert Calef, [73].

Thomas Hutchinson, [76].

C. W. Upham, [80].

Margaret Jones, [85].—Winthrop’s Account of her, [87].—Hutchinson’s and Upham’s, [88].—Our own, [89].—J. W. Crosby’s Experience, [94].—Spirit of Prophecy, [99].—Spirit Child, [100].—Materialization, [102].—Newburyport Spirit Boy, [103].—Why Margaret was executed, [109].—Erroneous faith, [114].—Margaret’s Case isolated, [119].—Epitaph, [121].