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  1692 handwritten testimony of Abigail Williams against George Jacobs Scan

  Unknown 1692 clerk; via UVA Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive ·from The Afflicted Girls of the Salem Village Parsonage: Betty Parris and Abigail Williams (1692) (1692)

  Abigail Williams Kepigelle & Faith that an old man that goes with two sisters had appeared to & hurt her many times by pinching & bringing the book for her to jet their hands unto, & the man had that his name was Jacob the Father of Geo: Jacob & the Grandfather of Margaret Jacob & he had made said M…

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  Tituba Teaching the First Act of Witchcraft, 1892 illustration Scan

  Henrietta D. Kimball, Witchcraft Illustrated (1892) ·from The Afflicted Girls of the Salem Village Parsonage: Betty Parris and Abigail Williams (1692) (1692)
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  Sign at the Salem Village parsonage site Scan

  Fletcher6 ·from The Afflicted Girls of the Salem Village Parsonage: Betty Parris and Abigail Williams (1692) (1692)

  1681 SALEM VILLAGE PARSONAGE IN 1681 THE SALEM VILLAGE INHABITANTS BUILT A HOME FOR THEIR MINISTER AT THIS SITE. MINISTERS RESIDING HERE WERE: GEORGE BURROUGHS (1681-83), ACCUSED IN 1692 OF BEING A WITCH AND HANGED; DEODAT LAWSON (1684-88), AUTHOR OF THE FIRST VOLUME ABOUT SALEM VILLAGE WITCHCRAFT; …

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  Tituba and the Children, imagined 19th-century scene of the parsonage girls Scan

  Alfred Fredericks (designer), Winham (engraver), Bryant's Popular History of the United States, 1878 ·from The Afflicted Girls of the Salem Village Parsonage: Betty Parris and Abigail Williams (1692) (1692)
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  Excavated foundations of the Salem Village parsonage, Danvers, 2009 Scan

  Fletcher6 ·from The Afflicted Girls of the Salem Village Parsonage: Betty Parris and Abigail Williams (1692) (1692)
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  Scene from Helen Pickett's ballet of The Crucible for Scottish Ballet Scan

  Jane Hobson ·from The Afflicted Girls of the Salem Village Parsonage: Betty Parris and Abigail Williams (1692) (1692)
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  Cover of Charles M. Skinner's Myths and Legends of Our Own Land Scan

  from The Spectre Leaguers of Cape Ann, Gloucester, Massachusetts (1692)
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  Title page of Cotton Mather's Magnalia Christi Americana Scan

  from The Spectre Leaguers of Cape Ann, Gloucester, Massachusetts (1692)
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  Cover of Samuel Adams Drake's A Book of New England Legends and Folk Lore Scan

  from The Spectre Leaguers of Cape Ann, Gloucester, Massachusetts (1692)
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  Historical illustration used to accompany the ICI Touraine episode on the Beast of Benais; not a contemporary depiction Scan

  Getty – Florilegius/Universal Images Group ·from The Beast of Benais: the man-eating beasts of Touraine, 1693-1694 (1693)
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  Title page of Robert Calef's More Wonders of the Invisible World (London, 1700), Massachusetts Historical Society copy Scan

  Lewismr ·from The Margaret Rule Possession: Cotton Mather, Robert Calef and the Levitation in Boston's North End (1693)

  WONDERS INVISIBLE WORLD: Or, The Wonders of the Invisible World, Display'd in Five Parts. Part I. An Account of the Sufferings of Margaret Rule, Written by the Reverend Mr. C. M. P. II. Several Letters to the Author, 3c. And his Reply relating to Witchcraft. P. III. The Differences between the Inhab…

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  Cover of a 1700 copy of More Wonders of the Invisible World Scan

  University of Virginia, Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive ·from The Margaret Rule Possession: Cotton Mather, Robert Calef and the Levitation in Boston's North End (1693)
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  Title page of More Wonders of the Invisible World in Drake's reprint Scan

  S. G. Drake, 1866, via Project Gutenberg ·from The Margaret Rule Possession: Cotton Mather, Robert Calef and the Levitation in Boston's North End (1693)

  MORE WONDERS O F T H E INVISIBLE WORLD: Or, The Wonders of the Invisible World, Display'd in Five Parts. Part I. An Account of the Sufferings of Margaret Rule, Written by the Reverend Mr. C. M. P. II. Several Letters to the Author, &c. And his Reply relating to Witchcraft. P. III. The Differences be…

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  First page scan of More Wonders of the Invisible World Scan

  University of Virginia, Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive ·from The Margaret Rule Possession: Cotton Mather, Robert Calef and the Levitation in Boston's North End (1693)

  ANOTHER Pluckt out of the BURNING. Or, more Wonders of the Invisible World. Part I. Section I. The Affiliations of MARGARET RULE. Ithin these few years there died in the Southern Parts a Christian Indian, who notwithstanding some of his Indian Weakness, had something of a better Character of Vertue …

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  Title page scan of More Wonders of the Invisible World Scan

  University of Virginia, Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive ·from The Margaret Rule Possession: Cotton Mather, Robert Calef and the Levitation in Boston's North End (1693)

  WONDERS OFTHE INVISIBLE WORLD: Or, The Wonders of the Invisible World. Display'd in Five Parts. Part I. An Account of the Sufferings of Margaret Rule, Written by the Reverend Mr. C. M. P. II. Several Letters to the Author, $ \mathcal{C} $ . And his Reply relating to Witchcraft. P. III. The Differenc…

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  Robert Calef's signature Scan

  S. G. Drake, 1866, via Project Gutenberg ·from The Margaret Rule Possession: Cotton Mather, Robert Calef and the Levitation in Boston's North End (1693)
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  Modern view of the Ring-Croft site near Auchencairn. Scan

  from The Ringcroft of Stocking Poltergeist: Andrew Mackie's Farm, Rerrick, 1695 (1695)
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  The Copland drawing of Ring-Croft of Stocking. Scan

  J. Copland, pre-1911 ·from The Ringcroft of Stocking Poltergeist: Andrew Mackie's Farm, Rerrick, 1695 (1695)
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  Collin farm and mill, near the Ring-Croft site, today. Scan

  James Bell (Geograph) ·from The Ringcroft of Stocking Poltergeist: Andrew Mackie's Farm, Rerrick, 1695 (1695)
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  Ringcroft of Stocking, now no longer in existence. Drawing of the farmhouse. Scan

  J. Copland, Dundrennan; from J. Maxwell Wood, Witchcraft and Superstitious Record (1911) ·from The Ringcroft of Stocking Poltergeist: Andrew Mackie's Farm, Rerrick, 1695 (1695)
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  Christian Shaw suffering, probably a modern illustration Scan

  from The Bargarran Impostor: the possession of Christian Shaw and the Paisley witch trial (1696)
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  Page background image, subject unknown Scan

  from The Bargarran Impostor: the possession of Christian Shaw and the Paisley witch trial (1696)
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  Bargarran House, now demolished Scan

  from The Bargarran Impostor: the possession of Christian Shaw and the Paisley witch trial (1696)
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  Title page of A True Relation of the Apparition of one Mrs. Veal, London, 1706 Scan

  Wikimedia Commons; attributed to Daniel Defoe, 1706 ·from The Apparition of Mrs. Veal, Canterbury 1705 (1705)

  True Relation OF THE APPARITION O F O N E Mrs. VEAL, The next Day after Her DEATH: TO ONE Mrs. BARGRAVE At Canterbury. The 8th of September, 1705. L O N D O N : Printed for B. Bragg, at the Black Raven in Pater- Noster-Row, 1706.…

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  Modern pillory reconstruction, Carrickfergus Scan

  from The Islandmagee Witch Case: The Haunting of Knowehead House (1710)
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  Front of Knowehead House, around 1920 Scan

  Reproduced from Dixon Donaldson, Islandmagee (1927) ·from The Islandmagee Witch Case: The Haunting of Knowehead House (1710)
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  Witch at a cauldron, generic artwork Scan

  Jan van de Velde II, 1626, courtesy Wellcome Trust ·from The Islandmagee Witch Case: The Haunting of Knowehead House (1710)
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  Cover of Andrew Sneddon's Possessed by the Devil (2024) Scan

  The History Press ·from The Islandmagee Witch Case: The Haunting of Knowehead House (1710)
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  The Warboys witches (1593) Scan

  Boulton, Compleat History of Magick (1715 to 1722), courtesy Wellcome Trust ·from The Islandmagee Witch Case: The Haunting of Knowehead House (1710)
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  Salvator Rosa, The Witch (1640s) Scan

  Private collection, Milan ·from The Islandmagee Witch Case: The Haunting of Knowehead House (1710)
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  Witches, aquatint, 1815 Scan

  Courtesy Wellcome Trust ·from The Islandmagee Witch Case: The Haunting of Knowehead House (1710)
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  Casting spells, generic artwork Scan

  J. Wood, 1763, after J. Collins, courtesy Wellcome Trust ·from The Islandmagee Witch Case: The Haunting of Knowehead House (1710)
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  Old Presbyterian meeting-house, Islandmagee, demolished 1900 Scan

  Dixon Donaldson, Historical, Traditional and Descriptive Account of Islandmagee (1927) ·from The Islandmagee Witch Case: The Haunting of Knowehead House (1710)
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  Levitating child, period illustration not of this case Scan

  Title page of Glanvill, Saducismus Triumphatus (1682) ·from The Islandmagee Witch Case: The Haunting of Knowehead House (1710)
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  Witch milking an axe, generic artwork Scan

  Courtesy Wellcome Trust ·from The Islandmagee Witch Case: The Haunting of Knowehead House (1710)
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  Two views of the carving, highlighted in white Scan

  Joe Harte ·from The Dobhar-chú of Glenade Lough and the death of Grace Connolly (1722)
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  Master otter carving on Grace Connolly's tombstone, second photo Scan

  Daev Walsh ·from The Dobhar-chú of Glenade Lough and the death of Grace Connolly (1722)
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  The so-called brother's slab Scan

  Antonio D'Imperio ·from The Dobhar-chú of Glenade Lough and the death of Grace Connolly (1722)
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  Glenade Lake Scan

  Daev Walsh ·from The Dobhar-chú of Glenade Lough and the death of Grace Connolly (1722)
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  Close-up of the Dobhar-chú carving on the slab Scan

  Antonio D'Imperio ·from The Dobhar-chú of Glenade Lough and the death of Grace Connolly (1722)
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  1930s Schools' Collection manuscript, Kinlough, page 390 Scan

  Dúchas, National Folklore Collection ·from The Dobhar-chú of Glenade Lough and the death of Grace Connolly (1722)
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  Peter McGloin at Glenade Lake Scan

  from The Dobhar-chú of Glenade Lough and the death of Grace Connolly (1722)
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  1930s Schools' Collection manuscript, Grange, 'Caiseal an Ghearráin' Scan

  Dúchas, National Folklore Collection ·from The Dobhar-chú of Glenade Lough and the death of Grace Connolly (1722)
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  Grace Connolly's 1722 slab in Conwal graveyard Scan

  Antonio D'Imperio ·from The Dobhar-chú of Glenade Lough and the death of Grace Connolly (1722)
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  The carving with a 20 cm ruler for scale Scan

  Antonio D'Imperio ·from The Dobhar-chú of Glenade Lough and the death of Grace Connolly (1722)
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  The worn, now illegible inscription Scan

  Antonio D'Imperio ·from The Dobhar-chú of Glenade Lough and the death of Grace Connolly (1722)
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  Cashelgarron stone fort Scan

  from The Dobhar-chú of Glenade Lough and the death of Grace Connolly (1722)
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  The Dobhar-chú tombstone Scan

  Joe McGowan ·from The Dobhar-chú of Glenade Lough and the death of Grace Connolly (1722)
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  1930s Schools' Collection manuscript, Kinlough, page 389 Scan

  Dúchas, National Folklore Collection ·from The Dobhar-chú of Glenade Lough and the death of Grace Connolly (1722)
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  Horseman slab with a rider holding a dagger, 12 m northeast Scan

  Antonio D'Imperio ·from The Dobhar-chú of Glenade Lough and the death of Grace Connolly (1722)