V. Their manner was to come into the ==Chambers== of people, and fetch away their children upon Beasts, of the Devils providing: promising ==Fine Clothes== and other Fine Things unto them, to inveagle them. They said, they never had power to do thus, till of late; but now the Devil did ==Plague== and ==Beat== them, if they did not gratifie him, in this piece of Mischief. They said, they made use of all sorts of ==Instruments== in their Journeys! Of ==Men==, of ==Beasts==, of ==Posts==; the _Men_ they commonly laid asleep at the place, whereto they rode them; and if the children mentioned the ==Names== of them that stole them away, =they= were miserably ==Scourged== for it, until some of them were killed. The ==Judges== found the marks of the Lashes on some of them; but the Witches said, ==They would Quickly vanish==. Moreover the Children would be in ==Strange Fits==, after they were brought Home from these Transportations. VI. The ==First Thing==, they said, they were to do at _Blockula_, was to give themselves unto the Devil, and ==Vow== that they would serve him. Hereupon, they ==cut their Fingers==, and with ==Blood== writ their ==Names== in his ==Book==. And he also caused them to be ==Baptised== by such ==Priests==, as he had, in this Horrid company. In ==some== of them, the ==Mark== of the ==cut Finger== was to be found; they said, that the Devil gave ==Meat== and ==Drink==, as to _Them_, so to the Children they brought with them: that afterwards their Custom was to _Dance_ before him; and _swear_ and _curse_ most horribly; they said, that the Devil show'd them a great Frightful, Cruel _Dragon_, telling them, ==If they confessed any Thing==, he would let loose that Great Devil upon them; they added, that the Devil had a ==Church==, and that when the ==Judges== were coming, he told them ==he would== [50] ==kill them all==; and that some of them had ==Attempted to Murder the Judges== but ==could not==. VII. Some of the ==Children==, talked much of a ==White Angel==, which did use to ==Forbid== them, what the Devil had bid them to do, and ==Assured== them that these doings would ==Not last long==; but that what had been done was permitted for the wickedness of the People. This ==White Angel==, would sometimes rescue the Children, from ==Going in==, with the Witches. VIII. The Witches confessed many mischiefs done by them, declaring with what kind of ==Enchanted Tools==, they did their Mischiefs. They sought especially to ==kill the Minister== of _Elfdale_, but could not. But some of them said, that such as they wounded, would ==Be recovered==, upon or before their Execution. IX. The ==Judges== would fain have seen them show some of their ==Tricks==; but they Unanimously declared, that, ==Since they had confessed==, all, they found all their ==Witchcraft== gone; and the Devil then ==Appeared very Terrible== unto them, threatning with an ==Iron Fork==, to thrust them into a Burning Pit, if they persisted in their Confession.