The Witchcraft Delusion in New England: Its Rise, Progress, and Termination (Vol. 3 of 3)Mather, Cotton
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The Witchcraft Delusion in New England: Its Rise, Progress, and Termination (Vol. 3 of 3)
Mather, Cotton
Witchcraft -- New England
but I would not have itt: and in Prayer Tyme she stoped my Eares and
would nott lett me hear. Q. What should you have done with itt. A. Give
itt to the Children, which yellow Bird hath bin severall Tymes seen by
the Children. I saw Sarah Good have itt on hir Hand, when she Came to
hir, when Mr. Parris was att prayer: I saw the Bird suck Good betweene
the fore Finger and Long Finger, upon the Right Hand. Q. Did you never
practise Witchcraft in your owne Country? A. Noe. Never before now. Q.
Did you see them doe itt now? A. Yes. To Day; but twas in the Morning.
Q. Butt did you see them doe itt now, while you are Examininge? A. Noe,
I did nott See them, but I Saw them hurt att other Tymes. I saw Good
have a Catt beside the yellow Bird, which was with hir. Q. What hath
Osburne gott to goe with hir? A. Some thing I don't know what itt is.
I can't name itt. I don't know how itt looks. She hath two of them.
One of them hath Wings, and two Leggs, and a Head like a Woeman. The
Children Saw the Same butt Yesterday, which afterward Turned into a
Woeman. Q. What is the Other Thing that Goody Osburne hath? A. A Thing
all over hairy; all the Face hayry, and a long Nose, and I don't know
how to tell how the Face looks; with Two Leggs, itt goeth uprighte,
and is about Two or three Foot high, and goeth upright like a Man;
and last Night itt Stood before the Fire, in Mr. Parris's Hall. Q.
Whoe was that appeared like a Wolfe to Hubbard, as she was goeing from
Proctures? A. Itt was Sarah Good, and I saw hir send the Wolfe to hir.
Q. What Cloathes doth the Man appeare unto you in? A. Black Cloaths,
sometimes, sometimes Searge Coat of other Couler; a Tall Man with white
hayr, I think. Q. What Aparrell doe the Woemen ware? A. I don't know
what Couller. Q. What kind of Cloathes hath She? A. A black silk Hood,
with a white Silk Hood under itt, with Sopknotts, which Woeman I know
not, but have seen hir in Boston, when I lived there. Q. What Cloathes
the little Woman? A. a Searge Coat with a white Cap, as I think. The
Children having Fitts at this very Time, She was asked, whoe hurt
them? She Answers Goody Good; and the Children affirmed the same; butt
Hubbard being taken in an Extreame Fitt; after, she was asked, whoe
hurt hir? and she sayd she Could nott tell, butt Sayd they blinded hir,
and would not lett hir see, and after that, was once or twice taken
dumb hir self.
Second Examination. March. 2. 169½.
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