Editing Cotton Mather (section)

==In popular culture==
===Comic books===
[[Marvel Comics]] features a [[supervillain]] character named Cotton Mather with alias name, 'Witch-Slayer', that is an enemy of [[Spider-Man]].<ref name="d872">{{cite web | last=Christ | first=Rachel | title=Cotton Mather: Villain, Bystander, or Somewhere in Between? | website=Salem Witch Museum | date=2023-05-03 | url=https://salemwitchmuseum.com/2023/05/03/cotton-mather-villain-bystander-or-somewhere-in-between/ | access-date=2025-02-17}}</ref><ref name="r876">{{cite web | title=Cotton Mather Powers, Enemies, History | website=Marvel | date=2024-12-06 | url=https://www.marvel.com/characters/cotton-mather | access-date=2025-02-17}}</ref>

He first appears in the [[Marvel Team-Up#Marvel Team-Up (1972–1985)|1972 comic 'Marvel Team-Up]]' issue #41, and appears in the subsequent issues until issue #45.<ref name="i476">{{cite web | title=Marvel Team Up | website=Marvel.com | date=2025-02-17 | url=https://www.marvel.com/comics/issue/19661/marvel_team-up_1972_41 | access-date=2025-02-17}}</ref><ref name="l727">{{cite web | title=Marvel Team-Up (1972) #42 | website=Marvel.com | date=2025-02-17 | url=https://www.marvel.com/comics/issue/19662 | access-date=2025-02-17}}</ref><ref name="h102">{{cite web | title=Marvel Team-Up (1972) #43 | website=Marvel.com | date=2025-02-17 | url=https://www.marvel.com/comics/issue/19663 | access-date=2025-02-17}}</ref><ref name="u625">{{cite web | title=Marvel Team-Up (1972) #44 | website=Marvel.com | date=2025-02-17 | url=https://www.marvel.com/comics/issue/19664 | access-date=2025-02-17}}</ref><ref name="m100">{{cite web | title=Marvel Team-Up (1972) #45 | website=Marvel.com | date=2025-02-17 | url=https://www.marvel.com/comics/issue/19665 | access-date=2025-02-17}}</ref><ref name="b503">{{cite web | title=Cotton Mather Reading Orders | website=Complete Marvel Reading Order | url=https://cmro.travis-starnes.com/character_details.php?character=13394 | access-date=2025-02-17}}</ref>

===Music===
The rock band [[Cotton Mather (band)|Cotton Mather]] is named after Mather.

The [[Handsome Family]]'s 2006 album ''[[Last Days of Wonder]]'' is named in reference to Mather's 1693 book ''[[Wonders of the Invisible World]]'', which lyricist Rennie Sparks found intriguing because of what she called its "madness brimming under the surface of things."<ref name = "avclub-interview">{{cite news | last = Bahn | first = Christopher | title = Interview: Brett and Rennie Sparks of The Handsome Family | work = A.V. Club | date = 8 February 2006 | url = http://www.avclub.com/article/interview-brett-and-rennie-sparks-of-the-handsome--16496 }}</ref>

===Radio===
[[Howard da Silva]] portrayed Mather in ''Burn, Witch, Burn,'' a December 15, 1975 episode of the [[CBS Radio Mystery Theater]].

===Literature===
One of the stories in [[Richard Brautigan]]′s collection ''[[Revenge of the Lawn]]'' is called ″1692 Cotton Mather Newsreel″.

In ''Burned: A Daughters of Salem Novel'', a 2023 young adult novel by Kellie O'Neill, the character "Vivienne Mathers" is a descendant of Cotton Mathers.

Mather is mentioned in several of the New England horror stories of [[H.P. Lovecraft]], such as "[[The Picture in the House]]," "[[The Unnamable (short story)|The Unnamable]]" and "[[Pickman's Model]]."

===Television===
[[Seth Gabel]] portrays Cotton Mather in the TV series ''[[Salem (TV series)|Salem]]'', which aired from 2014 to 2017.