S.O.A.P.StoneS: the wonders of the invisible world
The wonders of the invisible world question.
*bonuses*words and definitions
Background information
S.O.A.P.StoneS: the trials of Martha Carrier
100
What is the speaker
Cotton Mather
100
What is the Wonders of the Invisible World
was a book published in 1693 by Cotton Mather, defending Mather's role in the witchhunt conducted in Salem, Massachusetts, and espousing the belief that witchcraft was an evil magical power.
100
The idea that since God created people good, anyone that seemed to be possessed by the devil was a witch that should be tried in court
What is spectral evidence
100
What is Where was Cotton Mather born?
Boston, MA
100
What is the speaker
Cotton Mather
200
What did the smallpoxes epidemic do to Martha Carrier m
made people beileve Martha Carrier was a witch
200
The idea presented by Rachel Walker that Mather's work incriminated him by presenting his ideas that "witches" should be killed
What is self-damning
200
Who was Cotton Mather's father
Increase Mather
200
What is the occasion
The court of Oyer and Terminer held by adjournment at Salem, August 2,1962
300
What is the purpose
To show his support of the witch hunts and how he defends its actions
300
What was unique about Martha carriers trial
She defended herself, and said that the accusations against her were not true.
300
An informal record
What is Memorandum
300
How old he was when he attended Harvard
12 years old
300
What is the tone
Causal and objective as the speaker never gives us his opinion on the case
400
What is the significance
Cotton Mather and his support in the belief that witchcraft was an evil magical power
400
How did Marther described himself
He described himself as a historian
400
Afflicted
What is to distress so severely as to cause persistent suffering or anguish
400
What is the profession that Mather study to become
Puritan minister/ pastor
400
What is the significance
She was the first person from Andover to be put on trial for witchcraft.
500
What is the tone
Warning and convinced
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Which particular trial did Mather write about
The trial of Martha carrier
500
To turn from sin and dedicate oneself to the amendment of ones life
What is repentance
500
How many titles has Mather written
An exact number hasn't been determined (many!)
500
What is the purpose
Mather was trying to express his views on the trial. He didn't like how the trial wa being handled, defending the claims that witches were agents of the devil, and we're not possessed by spirits.