He defended his cause by the claim of so called facts. He called the afflicted daughter of Goodwin to his study, when the artful girl thoroughly deceived him. The devil would allow her to read "Quaker books, the Common Prayer and Popish books," but a prayer from the lips of Mather, or the reading of a chapter of the Bible threw her into upset...
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The simple minister believed all he saw and heard, and cried from his ministry, with outstretched arms and loud voice, "Witch craft is the most nefarious high-treason against the Majesty on High. A witch is not to be endured in heaven or on earth." Mather's main point on the subject was scattered broadcast among the people by means of the printing-press, and with it went out his past of the events in the Goodwin family, which led to greater tragedies in the spring and summer of 1692, when an widespread disease similar to epilepsy broke out in Danvers then a part of Salem, and spread fast...
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