[172] This Statement is fully borne out, as will be seen on referring to the Life of Phips, as directed above, or to the same in the _Magnalia_, B. ii, 60, _et seq._; one Extract here must suffice: "But of all the _Preternatural_ things which befel these People, there were none more unaccountable than those, wherein the prestigious _Dæmons_ would ever now and then cover the most _Corporeal_ Things in the World with a _Fascinating Mist_ of Invisibility. As now; a Person was cruelly assaulted by a _Spectre_, that, she said, run at her with a _Spindle_, though no Body else in the Room could see either the _Spectre_ or the _Spindle_: At last, in her Agonies, giving a Snatch at the _Spectre_, she pulled the _Spindle_ away; and it was no sooner got into her Hand, but the other Folks then present beheld that it was indeed a Real, Proper, Iron _Spindle_; which, when they locked up very safe, it was nevertheless by the _Dæmons_ taken away to do farther Mischief." In the _Wonders of the Invisible World_ (Vol. I, 205), this Story of the Spindle will be seen among the _Curiosities_ and is given, as the Author there tells the Reader, as "a Bone to pick" for the _Dogmatical_. _See also_ Lawson, 102. [173] It is highly interesting to hear the Doctor's Account of this: "It was also found, that the Flesh of the Afflicted was often _Bitten_ at such a Rate, that not only the _Print of Teeth_ would be left on their _Flesh_, but the very _Slaver_ of _Spittle_ too: As there would appear just such a _set of Teeth_ as was in the _Accused_, even such as might be clearly distinguished from other People's. And usually the _Afflicted_ went through a terrible Deal of seeming Difficulties from the tormenting _Spectres_, and must be long waited on before they could get a Breathing Space from their Tormentors to give in their Testimonies."--_Life of Phips, in Magnalia_, B. ii, 61-2. [174] The Doctor must once again be heard, otherwise the Reader can have but a faint Idea of what our Author is exposing: "The Miserable exclaimed extreamly of _Branding Irons_ heating at the Fire on the Hearth to mark them; now, though the Standers by could see no _Irons_, yet they could see distinctly the Print of them in the Ashes, and _smell_ them too as they were carried by the _not-seen Furies_, unto the poor Creatures for whom they were intended; and those poor Creatures were thereupon _Stigmatized_ with them, that they will bear the Marks of them to their Dying Day. Nor are these the _Tenth Part_ of the _Prodigies_ that fell out among the Inhabitants of New England."--_Ibid._, Page 61. If any one, after reading these strongly expressed Opinions of the learned Doctor, will entertain Doubts, as to his extreme Credulity and Faith in Witchcraft, it is not likely to be in human Power to remove them.