A Brief History of Witchcraft

John richards, that self made man who started out life as a servant, only to become one of the most powerful men in the colony, received a letter from his own minister. cotton mather told him not to lay more stress upon pure spectre testimony than it will bear. Mather went on witches. He told him shouldn't be able to recite the lord's prayer correctly. They should be on the lookout for poppets, a sort of doll used by witches to focus spells on another person. Another great source of physical evidence was witches marks which were supposed to show exactly where the witch would suckle their familiar. After all the witnesses and evidence were presented, the judges charged