According to her account, the Devil appeared occasionally in the form of a he-goat, and when they took leave of him, they all had to kiss him, that he inquired of them when they would return, and exhorted them to adhere to him and do all the evil in their power. He then took them all by the hand and they departed in different directions. She asserted also that it was the Devil who had been seen in the forms of a rat and a stoat in the house of James Gallienne, whose child she had bewitched; that she was in the neighbourhood of the house at the time; and that the Devil, having resumed the form of a man, came to her and beat her severely about the head and face, which ill-treatment she attributed to her having refused to go with him to Gallienne’s house. She said that she never went to the Sabbath except when her husband was gone out to sea for the night, fishing. The depositions of the witnesses, taken down very minutely in the three cases above cited and in many others of a similar nature, have been preserved, and throw a good deal of light on the popular ideas of the day in respect to sorcerers and their doings. [155] EDITOR’S NOTE.--Pavie used to be grown in ponds arranged for the purpose, and was used for making pack-saddles, horse-collars, mats, etc. It is a reed.--_From John de Garis, Esq._ [156] EDITOR’S NOTE.--(See footnote to p. 308). Some had a goat’s hair intwined, others a flaxen thread. Mr. J. Linwood Pitts, in his pamphlet on _Witchcraft in the Channel Islands_, points out, page 6, “that the natural tendency of wool and feathers to felt and clog together, has been distorted, by widely different peoples, into an outward and visible sign that occult and malignant influences were at work.” [157] EDITOR’S NOTE.--“Il y avoit de _l’etrain_”--a Guernsey-French word--from the old French _estraîn_, _estraine_, lat. strannu.--See Métivier’s _Dictionary_ “Etrain.” [158] EDITOR’S NOTE.--“Des graines noires comme de la neisle” (an old French word _nêle_, from Latin _Nigella_.)--Métivier’s _Dictionary_ “_Néle_.” [159] EDITOR’S NOTE.--The manner in which torture was administered in Guernsey is thus described by Warburton, herald and antiquary, _temp._ Charles II., in his _Treatise on the History, Laws and Customs of the Island of Guernsey_, 1682, page 126.