make you afraid,
the wrath of an angry God. I am sure that will make you afraid. Begone!
Do not torment me. I know what you would have; but it is out of your
reach; it is clothed with the white robes of Christ's righteousness."

After this, she seemed to dispute with the apparition about a particular
text of Scripture, while she kept her eyes closed all the time. The
apparition seemed to deny it, and she said she was sure there was such a
text, and she would tell it, and then the shape would be gone. Said she:

"I am sure you cannot stand before that text."

Then she was sorely afflicted, her mouth drawn on one side, and her body
strained for about a minute, and then she said:

"I will tell. I will tell, it is,--it is,--it is the third chapter of
the Revelations."

Such stuff could not in this day be admitted in any intelligent court of
justice.

Ann Putnam, the wife of Thomas Putnam, was next to testify against Goody
Nurse. She said:

"On March 18th, 1692, being wearied out in helping to tend my poor
afflicted child and maid, about the middle of the afternoon I lay me
down on the bed to take a little rest; and immediately I was almost
pressed and choked to death, that, had it not been for the mercy of a
gracious God and the help of those that were with me, I could not have
lived many moments; and presently I saw the apparition of Martha Corey,
who did torture me so, as I cannot express, ready to tear me to pieces,
and then departed from me a little while; but before I could recover
strength, or well take breath, the apparition of Rebecca Nurse fell upon
me again with dreadful tortures and hellish temptations to go along with
her, and she brought to me a little red book in her hand, and a black
pen, urging me vehemently to write in her book; and several times that
day she did most grievously torture me, almost ready to kill me. And on
that same day Martha Corey and Rebecca Nurse, the wife of Francis Nurse
senior, did both torture me, with tortures such as no tongue can
express."

"Did you suffer from Rebecca Nurse again?" the witness was asked.

"Yes."

"When?"

"On divers times. On the 20th, which was the Sabbath day. After that,
she came and sat upon my breast and did sorely torment me and threaten
to bear the soul out of my body, blasphemously denying the blessed God,
and the power of the Lord Jesus Christ to save my soul, and denying
several passages of Scripture, which I told her of, to repel her hell