Putnam, a Massachusetts Spiritualist, revisits the witchcraft cases of colonial New England: Cotton Mather’s account of the afflicted Margaret Rule, Robert Calef’s scornful reply, and the girls of Salem Village. He argues that the accused and afflicted were in fact mediums and that the marvels recorded were genuine spirit phenomena misunderstood by the Puritans.
A curious document of what Victorian Spiritualists believed, full of quotation from the original Salem sources. Download the free EPUB.