Wonders of the Invisible World: Observations as Well Historical as Theological, upon the Nature, the Number, and the Operations of the Devils

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book non-fiction work

Wonders of the Invisible World: Observations as Well Historical as Theological, upon the Nature, the Number, and the Operations of the Devils is a 1693 work by Puritan minister Cotton Mather defending the Salem witch trials and expounding contemporary beliefs about witchcraft and demonic activity in New England.

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Label	Occurrences
"Queen of Hell" by Cotton Mather	1
Wonders of the Invisible World: Observations as Well Historical as Theological	1
Wonders of the Invisible World: Observations as Well Historical as Theological, upon the Nature, the Number, and the Operations of the Devils canonical	1

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This entity first appeared as the object of triple T393004 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

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Target entity: Wonders of the Invisible World: Observations as Well Historical as Theological, upon the Nature, the Number, and the Operations of the Devils
Context triple: [Wonders of the Invisible World, fullTitle, Wonders of the Invisible World: Observations as Well Historical as Theological, upon the Nature, the Number, and the Operations of the Devils]

A. Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits
Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits is a late 17th-century theological treatise addressing witchcraft and demonic influence, written in the context of the Salem witch trials.
B. Deus sive Natura
Deus sive Natura is Baruch Spinoza’s philosophical conception of God as identical with the single, all-encompassing substance of nature and reality.
C. The Devil and Miss Prym
The Devil and Miss Prym is a philosophical novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho that explores the nature of good and evil through the moral dilemmas faced by a small village and a young woman.
D. Of Love and Other Demons
Of Love and Other Demons is a short novel by Gabriel García Márquez that blends magical realism and historical fiction to explore forbidden love, superstition, and colonial power in 18th-century Latin America.
E. The Monk
The Monk is a seminal 1796 Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis, renowned for its dark themes of corruption, lust, and the supernatural within a Spanish monastic setting.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Wonders of the Invisible World: Observations as Well Historical as Theological, upon the Nature, the Number, and the Operations of the Devils
Target entity description: Wonders of the Invisible World: Observations as Well Historical as Theological, upon the Nature, the Number, and the Operations of the Devils is a 1693 work by Puritan minister Cotton Mather defending the Salem witch trials and expounding contemporary beliefs about witchcraft and demonic activity in New England.

A. Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits
Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits is a late 17th-century theological treatise addressing witchcraft and demonic influence, written in the context of the Salem witch trials.
B. Deus sive Natura
Deus sive Natura is Baruch Spinoza’s philosophical conception of God as identical with the single, all-encompassing substance of nature and reality.
C. The Devil and Miss Prym
The Devil and Miss Prym is a philosophical novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho that explores the nature of good and evil through the moral dilemmas faced by a small village and a young woman.
D. Of Love and Other Demons
Of Love and Other Demons is a short novel by Gabriel García Márquez that blends magical realism and historical fiction to explore forbidden love, superstition, and colonial power in 18th-century Latin America.
E. The Monk
The Monk is a seminal 1796 Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis, renowned for its dark themes of corruption, lust, and the supernatural within a Spanish monastic setting.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	book ⓘ non-fiction work ⓘ
associatedWith	American colonial history ⓘ Massachusetts Bay Colony ⓘ Puritan clergy ⓘ
author	Cotton Mather ⓘ
authorNationality	New England colonial American ⓘ
authorOccupation	Puritan minister ⓘ
centralTheme	divine providence ⓘ evidence for witchcraft ⓘ operations of the Devil ⓘ spiritual warfare ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	Colonial America ⓘ
focusesOn	cases of alleged witchcraft in New England ⓘ legal proceedings against accused witches ⓘ
form	prose ⓘ
genre	polemical work ⓘ religious literature ⓘ theological treatise ⓘ
hasAlternativeTitle	Wonders of the Invisible World: Observations as Well Historical as Theological ⓘ linked to: Wonders of the Invisible World: Observations as Well Historical as Theological, upon the Nature, the Number, and the Operations of the Devils
historicalContext	Salem, Massachusetts ⓘ late 17th century New England ⓘ
historicalSignificance	important document of Puritan demonology ⓘ influential in shaping perceptions of witchcraft in colonial New England ⓘ key primary source on Salem witch trials ⓘ
intendedAudience	English Protestant readership ⓘ contemporary New England readers ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
literaryPeriod	Colonial American literature ⓘ
publicationYear	1693 ⓘ
purpose	defense of the Salem witch trials ⓘ exposition of contemporary beliefs about witchcraft ⓘ exposition of demonic activity in New England ⓘ
religiousTradition	Calvinism ⓘ Protestantism ⓘ
setting	New England ⓘ
subject	New England religious history ⓘ Puritan theology ⓘ Salem witch trials ⓘ demonology ⓘ witchcraft ⓘ
theologicalPerspective	Puritanism ⓘ
timeOfPublicationRelation	published shortly after the Salem witch trials ⓘ
titleShort	Wonders of the Invisible World ⓘ
viewpointOnWitchcraft	affirms reality of witchcraft and demonic influence ⓘ
viewpointOnWitchTrials	supportive of the court's actions ⓘ

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Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Wonders of the Invisible World → fullTitle → Wonders of the Invisible World: Observations as Well Historical as Theological, upon the Nature, the Number, and the Operations of the Devils ⓘ

Wonders of the Invisible World: Observations as Well Historical as Theological, upon the Nature, the Number, and the Operations of the Devils → hasAlternativeTitle → Wonders of the Invisible World: Observations as Well Historical as Theological ⓘ

linked to: Wonders of the Invisible World: Observations as Well Historical as Theological, upon the Nature, the Number, and the Operations of the Devils

Martha Carrier → describedAs → "Queen of Hell" by Cotton Mather ⓘ