Cotton Mather

Cotton Mather (12 February 1663 – 13 February 1728) was a Puritan minister perhaps best known for his involvement in the Salem Witch Trials of the late 17th century. He has intersected with various aspects of this wiki, both in the real world and as a fictional character.
==Real Life==
Howard Phillips Lovecraft was known to read the writings of Cotton Mather, and drew a germ of inspiration from a quotation in one of his works. This quotation, from one Dr. Pierre Borel, led in part to his writing The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.
==In Lovecraft's Works==
In one of his books, Mather wrote about the birth of a mysterious creature known as "the thing with the blemished eye", but failed to provide any information about what became of it ("The Unnamable").
Mather was present at the time accused witch Keziah Mason disappeared, and was at a loss to explain the mystical sigils which were all that remained in her cell ("The Dreams in the Witch House").
Richard Upton Pickman's four-times-great-grandmother was hanged as a witch with Mather in attendance during the Salem Witch Trials ("Pickman's Model").
Just before their Sabbat at Hallow-Mass, 1693, the devil-worshipping coven of Roodsford used dark magic to make Cotton Mather sick with colic, thus ensuring that he wouldn't interfere with their plans ("Satan's Servants").
==In Other Works==
The Mark McLaughlin and Michael Sheehan, Jr. short story "In The Chapel Of Ghattambah" tells of how Azmael, the High Priest of Ghattambah, was a one-time associate of Mather's.
Category:Alter-Egos/Characters Incorporated From the Real World
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