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       Cotton Mather is remembered as one of the most  influential Puritan  ministers of his day. Mather wrote many  reports based upon his studies and observations of witchcraft.  In the late 1600s Salem, many suspicions on witchery arose. Puritan Society was consumed with the thought that any entertainment such as Poetry, dancing,etc  entertainment was an act against god.        Any form of entertainment was the work of the devil and participating in these entertaining activities made you a devil yourself. He states that we should protect ourselves before we are manipulated by the devil " Beware of a boundless and sickly appetite". T hroughout the quote Mather uses imagery to make us readers picture what "witchcraft" looks like. Participating in any form of entertainment make you vulnerable to the " dangers you may incur".         Cotton Mather uses an analogy where he compares  listening to ...