in, and to
deny what she had confessed.

"It was the shape of this prisoner," she declared, "which whipped me
with iron rods, to compel me thereunto, and I furthermore saw Bridget
Bishop at a general meeting of the witches, in a field at Salem village,
where they partook of a diabolical sacrament in bread and wine, then
administered."

John Cook testified: "About five or six years ago, one morning, about
sunrise, I was in my chamber assaulted by the shape of this prisoner,
which looked on me, grinned at me, and very much hurt me with a blow on
the side of the head, and on the same day, about noon, the same shape
walked into the room where I was, and an apple strangely flew out of my
hand."

Samuel Gray testified: "About fourteen years ago, I waked on a night,
and saw the room wherein I lay full of light. Then I plainly saw a
woman, between the cradle and the bedside, which looked upon me. I rose,
and it vanished, though I found all the doors fast. Looking out at the
entry door, I saw the same woman, in the same garb again, and I said,
'In God's name, what do you come for?' I went to bed and had the same
woman again assaulting me. The child in the cradle gave a great screech,
and the woman disappeared. It was long before the child could be
quieted; and, though it was a very likely, thriving child, yet from this
time it pined away, and, after divers months, died in a sad condition. I
knew not Bishop then, nor her name; but when I saw her after this, I
knew her by her countenance and apparel and all circumstances, that it
was the apparition of this Bishop, which had thus troubled me."

John Bly testified:

"I bought a sow of Edmund Bishop, the husband of the prisoner, and was
to pay the price agreed upon to another person. This prisoner, being
angry that she was thus hindered from fingering the money, quarrelled
with me; soon after which the sow was taken with strange fits, jumping,
leaping and knocking her head against the fence. She seemed blind and
deaf and could not eat, whereupon my neighbor John Louder said he
believed the creature was overlooked, and there were sundry other
circumstances concurred, which made me believe that Bishop had bewitched
it."

The examining magistrates asked Bly:

"Have you ever been transformed by the prisoner?"

"I have," Bly answered.

"When was it?"

"Last summer. One night, as I was coming home late, the shape of the
prisoner came at me. She shook a bridle over my head and