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New England (United States) (search for this): entry calef-robert
Calef, Robert Author; place and date of birth uncertain; became a merchant in Boston; and is noted for his controversy with Cotton Mather concerning the witchcraft delusion in New England. Mather had published a work entitled Wonders of the invisible world, and Calef attacked the book, the author, and the subject in a publication entitled More wonders of the invisible world. Calef's book was published in London in 1700, and in Salem the same year. About this time the people and magistrates had come to their senses, persecutions had ceased, and the folly of the belief in witchcraft was broadly apparent. Mather, however, continued to write in favor of it, and to give instances of the doings of witches in their midst. Flashy people, wrote Mather, may burlesque these things, but when hundreds of the most sober people, in a country where they have as much mother-wit certainly as the rest of mankind, know them to be true, nothing but the absurd and froward spirit of Sadducism [dis
London (United Kingdom) (search for this): entry calef-robert
Calef, Robert Author; place and date of birth uncertain; became a merchant in Boston; and is noted for his controversy with Cotton Mather concerning the witchcraft delusion in New England. Mather had published a work entitled Wonders of the invisible world, and Calef attacked the book, the author, and the subject in a publication entitled More wonders of the invisible world. Calef's book was published in London in 1700, and in Salem the same year. About this time the people and magistrates had come to their senses, persecutions had ceased, and the folly of the belief in witchcraft was broadly apparent. Mather, however, continued to write in favor of it, and to give instances of the doings of witches in their midst. Flashy people, wrote Mather, may burlesque these things, but when hundreds of the most sober people, in a country where they have as much mother-wit certainly as the rest of mankind, know them to be true, nothing but the absurd and froward spirit of Sadducism [disb
Salem (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): entry calef-robert
Calef, Robert Author; place and date of birth uncertain; became a merchant in Boston; and is noted for his controversy with Cotton Mather concerning the witchcraft delusion in New England. Mather had published a work entitled Wonders of the invisible world, and Calef attacked the book, the author, and the subject in a publication entitled More wonders of the invisible world. Calef's book was published in London in 1700, and in Salem the same year. About this time the people and magistrates had come to their senses, persecutions had ceased, and the folly of the belief in witchcraft was broadly apparent. Mather, however, continued to write in favor of it, and to give instances of the doings of witches in their midst. Flashy people, wrote Mather, may burlesque these things, but when hundreds of the most sober people, in a country where they have as much mother-wit certainly as the rest of mankind, know them to be true, nothing but the absurd and froward spirit of Sadducism [dis
Increase Mather (search for this): entry calef-robert
oston; and is noted for his controversy with Cotton Mather concerning the witchcraft delusion in New England. Mather had published a work entitled Wonders of the invisible world, and Calef attacked the book, the author, of the belief in witchcraft was broadly apparent. Mather, however, continued to write in favor of it, and togs of witches in their midst. Flashy people, wrote Mather, may burlesque these things, but when hundreds of tspirits] can question them. Calef first attacked Mather in a series of letters, which were subsequently pubform, as above stated. In these letters he exposed Mather's credulity, and greatly irritated that really good man. Mather retorted by calling Calef a weaver turned minister. Calef tormented Mather more by other lettersMather more by other letters in the same vein, when the former, becoming wearied by the fight, called the latter a coal from hell, and proers of Calef were published in book form, Increase Mather, President of Harvard College, caused copies of the
Robert Calef (search for this): entry calef-robert
Calef, Robert Author; place and date of birth uncertain; became a merchant in Boston; and is noted for his controversy wblished a work entitled Wonders of the invisible world, and Calef attacked the book, the author, and the subject in a publication entitled More wonders of the invisible world. Calef's book was published in London in 1700, and in Salem the same year.t of Sadducism [disbelief in spirits] can question them. Calef first attacked Mather in a series of letters, which were su irritated that really good man. Mather retorted by calling Calef a weaver turned minister. Calef tormented Mather more by oCalef tormented Mather more by other letters in the same vein, when the former, becoming wearied by the fight, called the latter a coal from hell, and prosecuted him for slander. When these letters of Calef were published in book form, Increase Mather, President of Harvard Colleg, President of Harvard College, caused copies of the work to be publicly burned on the college green. Calef died about 1723.
1723 AD (search for this): entry calef-robert
nces of the doings of witches in their midst. Flashy people, wrote Mather, may burlesque these things, but when hundreds of the most sober people, in a country where they have as much mother-wit certainly as the rest of mankind, know them to be true, nothing but the absurd and froward spirit of Sadducism [disbelief in spirits] can question them. Calef first attacked Mather in a series of letters, which were subsequently published in book form, as above stated. In these letters he exposed Mather's credulity, and greatly irritated that really good man. Mather retorted by calling Calef a weaver turned minister. Calef tormented Mather more by other letters in the same vein, when the former, becoming wearied by the fight, called the latter a coal from hell, and prosecuted him for slander. When these letters of Calef were published in book form, Increase Mather, President of Harvard College, caused copies of the work to be publicly burned on the college green. Calef died about 1723.
1700 AD (search for this): entry calef-robert
Calef, Robert Author; place and date of birth uncertain; became a merchant in Boston; and is noted for his controversy with Cotton Mather concerning the witchcraft delusion in New England. Mather had published a work entitled Wonders of the invisible world, and Calef attacked the book, the author, and the subject in a publication entitled More wonders of the invisible world. Calef's book was published in London in 1700, and in Salem the same year. About this time the people and magistrates had come to their senses, persecutions had ceased, and the folly of the belief in witchcraft was broadly apparent. Mather, however, continued to write in favor of it, and to give instances of the doings of witches in their midst. Flashy people, wrote Mather, may burlesque these things, but when hundreds of the most sober people, in a country where they have as much mother-wit certainly as the rest of mankind, know them to be true, nothing but the absurd and froward spirit of Sadducism [disb