little further there appeared unto him a black Puppy, somewhat bigger than the First, but as black as a Coal. It's motions were quicker than those of his Axe. It flew at his Belly, and away at his Throat, so over his Shoulders one way, and then over his Shoulders another way, his heart now began to fail him, and he thought the Dog would have tore his Throat out. But he recovered himself, and called upon God in his distress, and naming the name of Jesus Christ it vanished away at once. The Deponent spoke not one word of these Accidents, for fear of affrighting his Wife. But the next morning, _Edmund Eliot_ going into _Martins_ house, this Woman asked him, where _Kembal_ was? He replied, at home a Bed, for ought he knew. She returned; they say he was frighted last night. _Eliot_ asked with what? She answered with Puppies. _Eliot_ asked, where she heard of it, for he had heard nothing of it! She rejoined, about the Town. Altho' _Kembal_ had mentioned the matter to no creature living.[90] [130] 8. _William Brown_ testified, that Heaven having bless'd him with a most Pious and Prudent Wife, this Wife of his, one day met with _Susanna Martin_: but when she approached just unto her, _Martin_ vanished out of sight, and left her extreamly affrighted. After which time the said _Martin_ often appeared unto her, giving her no little trouble; and when she did come, she was visited with Birds that sorely peck'd and prick'd her; and sometimes a bunch like a Pullets Egg would rise on her Throat, ready to choak her, till she cry'd out, _Witch, you shan't choak me!_ While this good Woman was in this Extremity, the Church appointed a Day of Prayer on her behalf; whereupon the trouble ceas'd; she saw not _Martin_ as formerly; and the Church instead of their Fast, gave thanks for her deliverance. But a considerable while after, she being summoned to give in some Evidence at the Court, against this _Martin_, quickly this _Martin_ came behind her, while she was Milking her Cow, and said unto her, _For thy defaming me at Court, I'll make thee the miserablest Creature in the World._ Soon after which she fell into a strange kind of Distemper, and became horribly Frantick, and uncapable of any Reasonable Action, the Physicians declaring, that her Distemper was preternatural, and that some Devil had certainly bewitched her; and in that condition she now remained.[91]