Why did Cotton Mather believe in witchcraft?

Why did Cotton Mather believe in witchcraft? Cotton Mather. Mather and his fellow New Englanders believed that God directly intervened in the establishment of the colonies and that the New World was formerly the Devil’s territory. Cotton Mather’s account of the witch trials reinforced colonial New Englanders’ view of themselves as a chosen generation of […]

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