"These and a thousand such vexations befalling the boy at home, they carried him to live abroad at a doctor's. There he was quiet; but returning home, he suddenly cried out he was pricked on the back, where they found strangely sticking a _three-tined fork_, which belonged unto the doctor, and had been seen at his house after the boy's _departure_. Afterward his troublers found him out _at the doctor's also_; where, crying out again he was pricked on the back, they found an _iron spindle_ stuck into him. "He was taken out of his bed, and thrown under it; and all the knives belonging to the house were one after another stuck into his back, which the spectators pulled out; only one of them seemed to the spectators to come out of his mouth. The poor boy was divers times thrown into the fire, and preserved from scorching there with much ado. For a long while he barked like a dog, clucked like an hen, and could not speak rationally. His tongue would be pulled out of his mouth; but when he could recover it so far as to speak, he complained that _a man called P----l appeared unto him as the cause of all_. "The man and his wife taking the boy to bed with them ... they were severely pinched and pulled out of bed.... But before the _devil_ was chained up, the invisible hand which did all these things began to put on an astonishing _visibility_. They often thought they felt the hand that scratched them, while yet they saw it not; but when they thought they had hold of it, it would give them the slip. "Once the _fist_ beating the man was discernible, but they could not catch hold of it. At length an apparition of a _Blackamoor child_ showed itself plainly to them.... A voice sang _revenge! revenge! sweet is revenge_. At this the people, being terrified, called upon God; whereupon there followed a mournful note, several times uttering these expressions--_Alas! alas! we knock no more, we knock no more!_ and there was an end of all." In no other remembered account is that little boy credited with saying anything whatsoever. Mather reports that upon coming out of one of his scenes of torture so far as to recover power of speech, "he complained that a man called P----l appeared unto him as the cause of all." That statement discloses a fact worth observing. There was tit for tat between little John and Powell. Each found the other a focus of issuing force that caused the witchery. The sensitive boy probably saw and felt, by his interior faculties, that properties and forces from Powell were applied to the strangely moving objects, and also in producing his own sufferings. Powell, too, through his inner perceptives, could learn the same in relation to the boy. Both were probably right in their perceptions, and in their allegations. Mr. Morse suspected and complained of Powell. That is something in favor of deeming John the lesser focus of force in this case.