A Puritan Tells Ghost Stories

04/27/20 • 3 min

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“Do you believe in the immortality of your soul? If not, the colonial New England Puritan minister Cotton Mather would like to tell you some ghost stories...”

So begins today’s story from Ryan Hoselton.

For further reading:
The Threefold Paradise of Cotton Mather: An Edition of “Triparadisus” edited by Reiner Smolinski (University of Georgia Press, 1995)
The Life and Times of Cotton Mather by Kenneth Silverman (Harper & Row, 1984)

“Do you believe in the immortality of your soul? If not, the colonial New England Puritan minister Cotton Mather would like to tell you some ghost stories...”

So begins today’s story from Ryan Hoselton.

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