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...father says. "She's studying to be a witch doctor...
Cotton Mather, son of Harvard President Increase Mather (1685-1701), was "personally responsible" for the hanging of an alleged witch, Mitchell says...
...test that was often used to determine if an accused witch should be executed was the test of the Lord's Prayer...
...accused could recite the entire prayer without the "devil inside" causing a mistake, he or she was considered innocent. But Mitchell says Cotton Mather convinced the people to hang the "witch" even after he passed the test...
Harvard itself has another connection with the witch trials. Faculty at Harvard College, then a school of divinity, were sometimes called upon to serve as judges for witch trials in the surrounding area, Mitchell says...