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
Q. What Covenant did you make with that Man that came to you? What did
he tell you. A. He tell me he God, and I must beleive him, and serve
him six Yeares, and he would give me many fine Things. Q. How longe
a goue was this? A. About six Weeks, and a little more; Fryday Night
before Abigall was Ill. Q. What did he say you must doe more? Did he
say you must write any Thing? Did he offer you any Paper? A. Yes, the
next Time he come to me, and showed me some fine Things; some Thing
like Creatures; a little Bird, some Thing like green and white. Q. Did
you promise him this when he spake to you? Then what did you answer
him. A. I then Sayd this, I tould him I Could nott beleive him God;
I tould him I ask my Maister, and would have gone up, but he stopt
mee, and would nott lett me. Q. Whatt did you promiss him? A. The
first Tyme I beleive him God, and then he was Glad. Q. What did he say
to you then? What did he say you must doe? A. Then he tell me they
must meet together. Q. When did he say you must meet together? A. He
tell me Weddnesday next, att my masters House, and then they all meet
together, and thatt Night I saw them all stand in the Corner, all four
of them, and the Man stand behind mee, and take hold of mee, to make
mee stand still in the Hall. Q. Whare was your Master then? A. In the
other Roome. Q. What Time of Night? A. A little before prayer Time.
Q. What did this Man say to you when he took hold of you? A. He say
goe into the other Room and see the Children, and doe hurt to them,
and Pinch them; and then I went in, and would nott hurt them a good
while; I would nott hurt Betty, I loved Betty, but they hall me and
make me pinch Betty, and the next Abigall, and then quickly went away
altogether a[fter] I had pinch them. Q. Did you goe into that Room
in your own Person, and all the rest? A. Yes, and my Master did nott
see us, for they would nott lett my Master see. Q. Did you goe with
the Company? A. Noe, I stayd and the Man stayd with mee. Q. What did
he then to you? A. He tell me my Master goe to Prayer, and he read in
Book, and he ask me what I remember, but don't you remember any thing?
Q. Did he ask you noe more but the frst Time to serve him, or the
second time? A. Yes, he ask me againe, and if I serve him six yeares
and he Come the Next Time, and show mee a Book. Q. And when would he
come then? A. The next Fyday, and showed me a Book in the Day Time,
betimes in the Morning. Q. And what Booke did he bring, a great or
little Booke? A. He did nott show itt me, nor would nott, but had itt
in his Pockett. Q. Did he nott make you write your Name? A. Noe, nott
yett, for my Mistris Called me into the other Roome. Q. Whatt did he
say you must do in that Book? A. He sayd, Write, and sett my name to
itt. Q. Did you Write? A. Yes, once I made a Marke in the Book, and
made itt with red like Bloud. Q. Did he gett itt out of your Body? A.
He said he must gett itt out. The Next Time he Come againe he give me a
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