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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88955	A true account of the tryals, examinations, confessions, condemnations, and executions of divers witches, at Salem, in New-England for their bewitching of sundry people and cattel to death, and doing other great mischiefs, to the ruine of many people about them. With the strange circumstances that attended their enchantments: and their conversation with devils, and other infernal spirits. In a letter to a friend in London. Licensed according to order.	M. C.	1692 (1692)	Wing M12A; ESTC R231912	4,181	18

A True Account OF THE TRYALS EXAMINATIONS CONFESSIONS CONDEMNATIONS and EXECUTIONS of divers WITCHES At SALEM in NEW-ENGLAND FOR Their Bewitching of sundry People and Cattel to Death and doing other great Mischiefs to the Ruine of many People about them WITH The Strange Circumstances that attended their Enchantments AND Their Conversation with Devils and other Infernal Spirits In a LETTER to a Friend in LONDON Licensed according to Order London Printed for J. Conyers in Holbourn 1692. A True Account of the Tryals and Confessions of several WITCHES in New-England c. In a Letter to a Friend SIR SInce in Scripture and divers Histories we find that by the Delusion and Temptation of the Devil silly Creatures are drawn aside to comply with a Diabolick Power out of Revenge to mischief their Fellow-Creatures and other sinister Designs it may not prove ungrateful to the Age among other Matters of this kind to give an Impartial Account of divers Persons who have been lately Try'd Convicted and Executed in New-England for their Bewitching Torturing and Destroying People and Cattle with many strange and amazing Circumstances that attended the Effecting of their hellish Performances And First At a Sessions of Oyer and Terminer Bridget Bishop was Try'd for Bewitching and Hurting divers Persons and Destroying their Cattle Against whom upon Evidence it appear'd in Court That she or something in her shape often came and pinched and bit several Persons grievously tormenting and affrighting them urging them to write their Names in a Book which was then produc'd and one refusing it was carry'd by force from her Wheel and threatned to be drown'd in a River if she did not Sign it but she overcame the Temptation And that Bishop boasted she had been the death of divers People And those she had bewitch'd when at any time she look'd upon them were extremely tortur'd and when they were in a Swoon if she touch'd them they would immediately revive and many the like Gestures work'd strange Effects Once she tempted one Deliverance Hobbs to Sign the Book she brought and because she refused a Spectre in the Shape of Bishop whip'd her with Iron Rods and that she knew this Woman to be at a General Meeting of Witches in a Field near a Village call'd Salem and that there she took Bread and Wine in a Diabolical way as a Sacrament John Cook said upon Oath That he was assaulted by her Shape in his Chamber which hit him a blow on the Head and made an Apple fly out of his Hand into his Mother's Lap at a great distance Her shape was often seen in a great Light which appear'd with her so that she might easily be discern'd John Blys's Wife Testified That having bought a Sow of Bishop's Husband and the Money being pay'd to another Person the Sow was soon after taken with strange Fits Leaping and Jumping and beating her Head against the places where she came refusing her meat c. She was held to bewitch a Child of one Samuel Shattock's and when she payed the said Shattock money it was unaccountably conveyed away though Locked never so safely up she oppressed one John Louder in the night and had like to have destroy'd him and after that he being at home and the doors shut a black Pig or rather the Devil in such a shape appear'd to him which he going to kick it vanished as he thought out of the Window then a black thing Jumped in again with a Body like a Monkey the Face something like a Man and the feet like a Cocks which in the midst of his affrighment told him That understanding he was in trouble he come as a Messenger to tell him that if he would be ruled by him he should want nothing in the World whereupon endeavouring to seize it he could feel no substance it seeming to Jump out of the Window again and then coming to the Porch said You had better take my Counsel He then struck at it with a Stick but the Stick broke and it Vanishing his Arm was disabled and afterward throwing dirt upon his Breast it struck him Dumb for three Days Many other things of the like nature were testifyed against her As that she appeared several times with a strange Light and upon her with-drawing it was Dark That one Stacy being threatned by her was one dark Night thrown against a Stone-Wall and down a Bank c. His Horse-traces breaking in pieces and he not being able to lift up two Bushels of Corn though otherwise a Strong Man It was suspected she killed this Party's Daughter by Witchcraft and it was proved that in taking down an old Cellar-Wall of hers Poppets made of Clouts and Hogs-Hair were found stuck with headless-pins To these Accusations and Proofs against her she made little Defence Susanna Martin was Tryed upon the same account and the People that were to appear against her found themselves upon their looking at her in a strange disorder falling down when they came to approach her and being asked the reason she gave a very slight Answer Against her it was proved that one John Allen refusing to carry her some Staves by reason of the weakness of his Oxen that drove his Wain she told him he had better he had and soon after one of his Oxen tired but this was not all putting his Oxen to pasture among others they first took a River and then being recovered they ran into the Sea where they were all drowned but one which for a time run Mad. John Atkinson having bought a Cow of this Woman's Son and she being displeased at the Bargain though this Cow was Ham-string'd and halter'd she grew so Mad that she broke all the Ropes and though tyed to a Tree she got away Bernard Peche testified That she came in at his Window one Night and lay upon him for two hours when recovering himself he got hold of her Hand and bit her by the Finger so that she going down Stairs drops of Blood were found and the prints of her feet in the Snow at the threshold but no farther Once she and another assaulted him in his Barn where he knocked them down with a Quarter-Staff but they rose up and got away and having threatned one time to send a she-Devil to fetch him away a Cat soon after came in at the Window and took hold on his Throat when calling upon the Name of God it flew out of the Window Also falling out with one Kembal for his refusing to buy a Puppy of her she said he should have Puppies enough and one day coming home he was by an invisible Power driven out of the Road upon stumps of Trees and immediately a Puppy shot too and fro between his Legs and sometimes over his Shoulder which he could not hit though often with his Ax he struck at it soon after another bigger appeared and flew at him with great fierceness when calling upon the Name of Christ it vanished and though Kembal told it to no