necessary to apply the _Oyl's_ proper for common _Burning_, but the most of these Hurts would be cured in two or three days at farthest: I think I may _without Vanity_ pretend to have read not a few of the best System's of _Physick_[24] that have been yet seen in these _American_ Regions, but I must confess that I have never yet learned the Name of the Natural Distemper, whereto these odd symptoms do belong: However I might suggest perhaps many a _Natural Medicine_, which would be of singular use against many of them. _Sect._ 8. But there fell out some _other matters_ far beyond the reach of _Natural Distemper_: This _Margaret Rule_ once in the middle of the Night Lamented sadly that the _Spectres_ threat'ned the Drowning of a Young Man in the Neighbourhood, whom she named unto the Company: well it was afterwards found that at that very time this Young Man, having been prest on Board _a Man of War_ then in the Harbour, was out of some dissatisfaction attempting to swim ashoar, and he had been _Drowned_ in the attempt, if a Boat had not seasonably taken him up; it was by computation a minute or two after the Young Womans discourse of the _Drowning_, that the Young Man took the Water; At another time she told us that [7] the _Spectres_ bragg'd and laughed in her hearing about an exploit they had lately done, by stealing from a Gentleman his _Will_ soon after he had written it; and within a few hours after she had spoken this there came to me a Gentleman with a private complaint, that having written his _Will_, it was unaccountably gone out of the way, _how_ or _where_ he could not Imagine; and besides all this, there were wonderful _Noises_ every now and then made about the Room, which our People could Ascribe to no other Authors but the _Spectres_, yea, the Watchers affirm that they heard those fiends clapping of their hands together with an _Audibleness_, wherein they could not be Imposed upon: And once her Tormentors pull'd her up to the _Cieling_ of the Chamber, and held her there before a very Numerous Company of _Spectators_, who found it as much as they could _all do_ to pull her down again.[25] There was also another very surprising circumstance about her, agreeable to what we have not only _read_ in several Histories concerning the _Imps_ that have been Imployed in _Witchcraft_; but also known in some of our own afflicted: _We once thought we perceived something stir upon her pillow at a little distance from her, whereupon one present laying his hand there, he to his horror_ apprehended that _he felt,_ tho' none could see it, _a living Creature,_ not _altogether unlike a Rat, which nimbly escap'd from him:_ and there were diverse other Persons who were thrown into a great consternation by feeling, as they Judg'd, at other times the same _Invisible Animal_.