The Wonders of the Invisible World

Mather wrote The Wonders of the Invisible World to expose and explain the reason witchcraft by reviewing trials. He provides evidence to defend the reasoning the government held the trials and executions. The devil brought misfortune to the settlement for disrupting his territory with their belief in God. The devil planted witchcraft. Bridget Bishop was indicted for bewitching several people in the neighborhood. The rest of the story is many peopletestifying what acts Bishop has done to them to prove her a witch. A lot of the testimonies are from years previously. Samuel Shattock testified that in 1680  Bishop had made his son ill. He was thrown and bruised against the stones by an "invisible hand."Also Samuel Gray testified that fourteen years ago he saw a women standing by his baby's cradle. He rose and it vanished. He did not know her or her name but when he saw her after it happened, he knew that it was her who was in his house. I believe that they would of believed anything that anyone would of said. There was no real evidence to prove Bishop  a witch.