Wonders of the Invisible World

The Wonders of the Invisible World was a book written by Cotton Mather and published in 1693.

"...An army of devils is horribly broke in upon the place which is the center, and after a sort, the first-born of our English settlements...[2] Mather prefaced the trials by saying he would recount them as a historian.

One of the trials included was Martha Carrier's, who was "[t]he person of whom the confessions of the witches, and of her own children among the rest, agreed that the devil had promised her she should be Queen of the Hebrews.

[2]: 308 Puritan colonists feared the perceived witches among themselves , "and the houses of the good people are filled with the doleful shrieks of their children and servants, tormented by invisible hands.".

[2]: 309 Mather's book inspired the title of the 2006 album Last Days of Wonder by Chicago band The Handsome Family; lyricist Rennie Sparks has stated she was intrigued by what she called its "madness brimming under the surface of things.