‘You must also understand, that after they have delicatlie banketted with the Diuell and the ladie of the fairies; and have eaten up a fat oxe, and emptied a butt of malmesie, and a binne of bread, at some nobleman’s house, in the dead of night, nothing is missed of all this in the morning. For the ladie _Sibylla_, _Minerua_, or _Diana_, with a golden rod striketh the vessell and the binne, and they are fullie replenished againe. Yea, she causeth the bullock’s bones to be brought and laid togither upon the hide, and lappeth the foure ends thereof togither, laieing her golden rod thereon; and then riseth up the bullocke againe, in his former estate and condition: and yet, at their returne home, they are like to starve for hunger; as _Spineus_ saith. And this must be an infallible rule, that euerie fortnight, or at the least, euerie moneth, each witch must kill one child, at the least, for hir part. * * * * * ‘And this is to be noted, that the inquisitors affirme, that during the whole time of the witch’s excourse, the Diuell occupieth the roome and place of the witch, in so perfect a similitude, as hir husband in his bed, neither by feeling, speech, nor countenance can discerne hir from his wife. Yea, the wife departeth out of hir husbands armes insensiblie, and leaueth the Diuell in her roome visiblie.’ The novice is now a full-fledged witch, and according to the best authorities may, and must, commit certain crimes, of which the following are some: ‘They denie God, and all religion. ‘They cursse, blaspheme, and provoke God with all despite. ‘They give their faith to the diuell, and they worship and offer sacrifice to him. ‘They doo solemnelie vow and promise all their progenie unto the diuell. ‘They sacrifice their owne children to the diuell before baptisme, holding them up in the aire unto him, and then thrust a needle into their braines. ‘They burne their children when they have sacrificed them. ‘They sweare to the diuell to bring as manie into that societie, as they can. ‘They sweare by the name of the diuell. ‘They boile infants (after they have murthered them unbaptized) untill their flesh be made potable. ‘They eate the flesh and drinke the bloud of men and children openlie. ‘They kill men with poison. ‘They kill men’s Cattell. ‘They bewitch men’s corne, and bring hunger and barrennes into the countrie; they ride and flie in the aire, bring stormes, make tempests, &c.’