Cotton Mather
Cotton Mather (February 12, 1663 – February 13, 1728). B.A. 1678 (Harvard College), M.A. 1681; honorary doctorate 1710 (University of Glasgow), was a socially and politically influential Puritan minister, prolific author, and pamphleteer. Cotton Mather was the son of influential minister Increase Mather.
Fiction
- Cotton Mather appears as one of the characters in the second book A Calculus of Angels of Gregory Keyes' trilogy, The Age of Unreason.
- In the short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," by Washington Irving, Ichabod Crane is depicted "a perfect master of Cotton Mather's 'History of New England Witchcraft,' in which, by the way, he most firmly and potently believed."
- The name Cotton Mather appears in a number of stories by HP Lovecraft, usually when a character is somehow related to the witches of New England.
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