ish
temptations."

The afflicted children were present, and when the unfortunate prisoner,
tired and sick, bent her head, they began to scream and bent their heads
also. When she gazed at Abigail Williams, the girl was seized with a
convulsion, and so were the others, so that the trial had to be
suspended for a few minutes, until quiet was restored.

Charles Stevens, who was present, remarked, loud enough to be heard:

"If they had a stick well laid about their backs, I trow it would cure
them of such devil's capers."

"Have a care, Charles. Take heed of your hasty speech," said a
by-stander.

Mrs. Putnam, fearful that her first deposition would not convict the
woman, who had dared speak boldly against her beloved pastor, again took
the stand and testified:

"Once, when Rebecca Nurse's apparition appeared unto me, she declared
that she had killed Benjamin Houlton, John Friller, and Rebecca
Shepherd, and that she and her sister Cloyse, and Edward Bishop's wife,
had killed John Putnam's child. Immediately there did appear to me six
children in winding-sheets, which called me aunt, which did most
grievously affright me; and they told me they were my sister Baker's
children of Boston, and that Goody Nurse, Mistress Corey of Charlestown
and an old deaf woman at Boston murdered them, and charged me to go and
tell these things to the magistrates, or else they would tear me to
pieces, for their blood did cry for vengeance. Also there appeared to me
my own sister Bayley and three of her children in winding-sheets, and
told me that Goody Nurse had murdered them."

This evidence was followed by the afflicted children bearing testimony
to being grievously tormented by defendant, who came sometimes in the
shape of a black cat, a dog, or a pig, and who was sometimes accompanied
by a black man. Louder next related his experience of being changed to a
horse and ridden to a witches' ball, and of seeing Rebecca Nurse ride
through the air on a broomstick. The West Indian negro man John, the
husband of Tituba and servant of Mr. Parris, was next put on the witness
stand. The magistrate asked him:

"John, who hurt you?"

"Goody Nurse first, and den Goody Corey."

"What did she do to you?"

"She brought de book to me."

"John, tell the truth. Who hurt you? Have you been hurt?"

"The first was a gentleman I saw."

"But who hurt you next?"

"Goody Nurse. She choke me and brought me de book."

"Where did she take hold of yo