The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut (1647-1697) eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 161 pages of information about The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut (1647-1697).

The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut (1647-1697) eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 161 pages of information about The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut (1647-1697).
giuen her, and said if they accused her for a witch she would haue them to the gouernor, she would trounce them.  Another time she was saying she had some thoughts, what if the Devill should come to sucke her, and she resolued he should not sucke her....  Time, Mr. Hookes Indian, said in church meeting time she would goe out and come in againe and tell them what was done at meeting.  Time asking her who told, she answered plainly she would not tell, then Time said did not ye Devill tell you....  Time said she heard her one time talking to herselfe, and she said to her, who talke you too, she said, to you; Time said you talke to ye Devill, but she made nothing of it.  Mr. Hooke further said, that he hath heard that they that are adicted that way would hardly be kept away from ye houses where they doe mischiefe, and so it was wth her when his boy was sicke, she would not be kept away from him, nor gott away when she was there, and one time Mris.  Hooke bid her goe away, and thrust her from ye boye, but she turned againe and said she would looke on him.  Mris.  Goodyeare said that one time she questioned wth Elizabeth Godmand aboute ye boyes sickness, and said what thinke you of him, is he not strangly handled, she replyed, what, doe you thinke hee is bewitched; Mris.  Goodyeare said nay I will keepe my thoughts to myselfe, but in time God will discouer ...

“Mr. Hooke further said, that when Mr. Bishop was married, Mris.  Godman came to his house much troubled, so as he thought it might be from some affection to him, and he asked her, she said yes; now it is suspitious that so soone as they were contracted Mris.  Byshop fell into verey strang fitts wch hath continewed at times euer since, and much suspition there is that she hath bine the cause of the loss of Mris.  Byshops chilldren, for she could tell when Mris.  Bishop was to be brought to bedd, and hath giuen out that she kills her chilldren wth longing, because she longs for every thing she sees, wch Mris.  Bishop denies....  Another thing suspitious is, that she could tell Mris.  Atwater had figgs in her pocket when she saw none of them; to that she answered she smelt them, and could smell figgs if she came in the roome, nere them that had them; yet at this time Mris.  Atwater had figgs in her pocket and came neere her, yet she smelt them not; also Mris.  Atwater said that Mris.  Godman could tell that they one time had pease porridge, when they could none of them tell how she came to know, and beeing asked she saith she see ym on the table, and another time she saith she was there in ye morning when the maide set them on.  Further Mris.  Atwater saith, that that night the figgs was spoken of they had strangers to supper, and Mris.  Godman was at their house, she cutt a sopp and put in pann; Betty Brewster called the maide to tell her & said she was aboute her workes of darkness, and was suspitious of Mris.  Godman, and spake to her of it, and that night Betty Brewster was in a most misserable case, heareing a most dreadfull noise wch put her in great feare and trembling, wch put her into such a sweate as she was all on a water when Mary Miles came to goe to bed, who had fallen into a sleepe by the fire wch vsed not to doe, and in ye morning she looked as one yt had bine allmost dead....

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