he case on trial shows that William Stacy testified:

"I received money of this Bishop for work done by me, and I was gone but
a matter of three rods from her, when, looking for my money, I found it
unaccountably gone from me. Some time after, Bishop asked me if my
father would grind her grist for her? I demanded why not?

"'Because folks count me a witch.'

"I answered:

"'No question but he will grind for you.'

"Being gone about six rods from her, with a small load in my cart,
suddenly the off wheel stumped and sank down into a hole, upon plain
ground, so that I was forced to get help for the recovering of the
wheel; but, stepping back to look for the hole which might give me this
disaster, there was none at all to be found. Some time after, I was
waked in the night; but it seemed as light as day, and I perfectly saw
the shape of this Bishop in the room, troubling me; but upon her going
out, all was dark again. When I afterward charged Bishop with it, she
did not deny it, but was very angry. Quickly after this, having been
threatened by Bishop, as I was again in a dark night, going to the barn,
I was very suddenly taken or lifted from the ground, and thrown against
a stone wall. After that, I was hoisted up and thrown down a bank, at
the end of my house. After this, again passing by this Bishop, my horse
with a small load, striving to draw, all his gears flew to pieces, and
the cart fell down, and I, going to lift a bag of corn, of about two
bushels, could not budge it."

The foregoing is a sample of the testimony on which people were hung. We
have given these, that the reader may see what firm hold Mr. Parris and
superstition had on the people. We could give page after page of this
testimony; but the above is sufficient. If the reader wants a fuller
account of the trials of Bishop, Martin or any of the unfortunates who
suffered death at Salem during the reign of superstition, we refer them
to the collections of Cotton Mather in his "Invisible World." From that
book we quote the following information, as elicited by the examination
in case of Susanna Martin, at Salem, June 29th, 1692:

Magistrate.--"Pray, what ails these people?"

Martin.--"I don't know."

Magistrate.--"But what do you think of them?"

Martin.--"I don't desire to spend my judgment upon it."

Magistrate.--"Don't you think they are bewitched?"

Martin.--"No; I do not think they are."

Magistrate.--"Tell us your thoughts about them."

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