ination.

To which is added,

\Cases of Conscience\
Concerning Witchcrafts and Evil Spirits Personating
Men.

Written at the Request of the Ministers of _New-England_.

By _Increase Mather_, President of _Harvard_ Colledge.

\Licensed and Entred according to Order.\

_London_: Printed for \J. Dunton\, at the _Raven_ in the _Poultrey_.
1693. Of whom may be had the _Third Edition_ of Mr. _Cotton
Mather's First Account_ of the Tryals of the _New-England_
Witches, Printed on the same size with this _Last Account_, that
they may bind up together.

A TRUE NARRATIVE of some Remarkable
Passages relating to sundry Persons afflicted
by _Witchcraft_ at _Salem_ Village in _New-England_,
which happened from the _19th._ of _March_
to the _5th._ of _April_, 1692.

COLLECTED BY DEODAT LAWSON.

On the Nineteenth day of _March_ last I went to _Salem_ Village, and
lodged at _Nathaniel Ingersol's_ near to the Minister Mr. _P.'s_ House,
and presently after I came into my Lodging, Capt. _Walcut's_ Daughter
_Mary_ came to Lieut. _Ingersol's_ and spake to me; but suddenly after,
as she stood by the Door, was bitten, so that she cried out of her
Wrist, and looking on it with a Candle, we saw apparently the marks of
Teeth, both upper and lower set, on each side of her Wrist.

In the beginning of the Evening I went to give Mr. _P._ a Visit. When I
was there, his Kinswoman, _Abigail Williams_, (about 12 Years of Age)
had a grievous fit; she was at first hurried with violence to and fro in
the Room (though Mrs. _Ingersol_ endeavoured to hold her) sometimes
making as if she would fly, stretching up her Arms as high as she could,
and crying, _Whish, Whish, Whish_, several times; presently after she
said, there was Goodw. _N._ and said, _Do you not see her? Why there she
stands!_ And she said, Goodw. _N._ offered her THE BOOK, but she was
resolved she would not take it, saying often, _I wont, I wont, I wont
take it, I do not know what Book it is: I am sure it is none of God's
Book, it is the Devil's Book for ought I know._ After that, she ran to
the Fire, and begun to throw Fire-brands about the House, and run
against the Back, as if she would run up Chimney, and, as they said, she
had attempted to go into the Fire in other Fits.

On Lords Day, the Twentieth of _March_, there were sundry of the
afflicted Persons at Meeting, as Mrs. _Pope_, and Goodwife _Bibber_,
_Abigail