"Why do you hurt these children?—I do not hurt them.[ii.21] "Who do you employ, then, to hurt them?—I employ nobody. "What familiarity have you with Sarah Good?—None: I have not seen her these two years. "Where did you see her then?—One day, agoing to town. "What communications had you with her?—I had none, only 'How do you do?' or so. I do not know her by name. "What did you call her, then? "(Osburn made a stand at that; at last, said she called her Sarah.) "Sarah Good saith that it was you that hurt the children.—I do not know that the Devil goes about in my likeness to do any hurt. "Mr. Hathorne desired all the children to stand up, and look upon her, and see if they did know her, which they all did; and every one of them said that this was one of the women that did afflict them, and that they had constantly seen her in the very habit that she was now in. Three evidences declared that she said this morning, that she was more like to be bewitched than that she was a witch. Mr. Hathorne asked her what made her say so. She answered that she was frighted one time in her sleep, and either saw, or dreamed that she saw, a thing like an Indian all black, which did pinch her in her neck, and pulled her by the back part of her head to the door of the house. "Did you never see any thing else?—No. "(It was said by some in the meeting-house, that she had said that she would never believe that lying spirit any more.) "What lying spirit is this? Hath the Devil ever deceived you, and been false to you?—I do not know the Devil. I never did see him.[ii.22] "What lying spirit was it, then?—It was a voice that I thought I heard. "What did it propound to you?—That I should go no more to meeting; but I said I would, and did go the next sabbath-day. "Were you never tempted further?—No. "Why did you yield thus far to the Devil as never to go to meeting since?—Alas! I have been sick, and not able to go. "Her husband and others said that she had not been at meeting three years and two months."