JACOB JOHNSON’S WIFE—­The box on the head—­Diet, drink, and plasters—­Epistaxis

“The relation of the wife of Jacob Johnson.  She saith that her former husband was employed by goodman Harrison to go to Windsor with a canoe for meal, and he told me as he lay in his bed at Windsor in the night he had a great box on the head, and after when he came home he was ill, and goodwife Harrison did help him with diet drink and plasters, but after a while we sent to Capt.  Atwood to help my husband in his distress, but the same day that he came at night I came in at the door, & to the best of my apprehension I saw the likeness of goodwife Harrison with her face towards my husband, and I turned about to lock the door & she vanist away.  Then my husband’s nose fell a bleeding in an extraordinary manner, & so continued (if it were meddled with) to his dying day.  Sworn in court Oct. 29, 1668, attests John Allyn, Secy.”

MARY HALE—­Noises and blows—­The canine apparition—­The voice in the night—­The Devil a liar

“That about the latter end of November, being the 29th day, 1668, the said Mary Hale lying in her bed, a good fire giving such light that one might see all over that room where the said Mary then was, the said Mary heard a noise, & presently something fell on her legs with such violence that she feared it would have broken her legs, and then it came upon her stomach and oppressed her so as if it would have pressed the breath out of her body.  Then appeared an ugly shaped thing like a dog, having a head such that I clearly and distinctly knew to be the head of Katherine Harrison, who was lately imprisoned upon suspicion of witchcraft.  Mary saw it walk to & fro in the chamber and went to her father’s bedside then came back and disappeared.  That day seven night next after, lying in her bed something came upon her in like manner as is formerly related, first on her legs & feet & then on her stomach, crushing & oppressing her very sore.  She put forth her hand to feel (because there was no light in the room so as clearly to discern).  Mary aforesaid felt a face, which she judged to be a woman’s face, presently then she had a great blow on her fingers which pained her 2 days after, which she complained of to her father & mother, & made her fingers black and blue.  During the former passages Mary called to her father & mother but could not wake them till it was gone.  After this, the day of December in the night, (the night being very windy) something came again and spoke thus to her, saying to Mary aforesaid, You said that I would not come again, but are you not afraid of me.  Mary said, No.  The voice replied I will make you afraid before I have done with you; and then presently Mary was crushed & oppressed very much.  Then Mary called often to her father and mother, they lying very near.  Then the voice said, Though you do call they shall not hear till I am gone.  Then the voice said, You said that I preserved my cart to carry me to the gallows, but