review the report by Cotton Mather on the evidence and testimony in the trial of Martha Carrier
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The salem witch trials are evidence of the way fear and suspicion can twist human logic and reason. Cotton Mather regarded himself as an objective historian of these events but he wrote with the full assumption that the accusations and condemnations were based on facts proven only by the testimony of the accusers and supported by the erroneous decisions of a court law. However the fallacies of the factual evidence that he presents in the following passage are obivious to modern readers. As you read imagine the natural explanation of each piece of evidence he cites.
