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).

“Mris.  Godman accused Mr. Goodyeare for calling her downe when Mris.  Bishop was in a sore fitt, to looke vpon her, and said he doubted all was not well wth her, and that hee feared she was a witch, but Mr. Goodyeare denyed that; vpon this Mris.  Godman was exceeding angrie and would haue the servants called to witnes, and bid George the Scochman goe aske his master who bewitched her for she was not well, and vpon this presently Hanah Lamberton (being in ye roome) fell into a verey sore fitt in a verey strang maner....

“Another time Mris.  Goodyeare said to her, Mris.  Elzebeth what thinke you of my daughters case; she replyed what, doe you thinke I haue bewitched her; Mris.  Goodyeare said if you be the ptie looke to it, for they intend to haue such as is suspected before the magistrate.

“Mris.  Godman charged Hanah Lamberton that she said she lay for somewhat to sucke her, when she came in hott one day and put of some cloathes and lay vpon the bed in her chamber.  Hanah said she and her sister Elizabeth went vp into the garet aboue her roome, and looked downe & said, looke how she lies, she lyes as if som bodey was sucking her, & vpon that she arose and said, yes, yes, so there is; after said Hanah, she hath something there, for so there seemed as if something was vnder the cloathes; Elizabeth said what haue you there, she said nothing but the cloathes, and both Hanah & Eliza. say that Mris.  Godman threatened Hanah, and said let her looke to it for God will bring it vpon her owne head, and about two dayes after, Hanahs fitts began, and one night especially had a dreadfull fitt, and was pinched, and heard a hedious noise, and was in a strang manner sweating and burning, and some time cold and full of paine yt she shriked out.

“Elizabeth Lamberton saith that one time ye chilldren came downe & said Mris.  Godman was talking to herselfe and they were afraide, then she went vp softly and heard her talke, what, will you fetch me some beare, will you goe, will you goe, and ye like, and one morning aboute breake of day Henry Boutele said he heard her talke to herselfe, as if some body had laine wth her....

“Mris.  Goodyeare said when Mr. Atwaters kinswoman was married Mris.  Bishop was there, and the roome being hott she was something fainte, vpon that Mris.  Godman said she would haue many of these fainting fitts after she was married, but she saith she remembers it not....

“Goodwife Thorp complained that Mris.  Godman came to her house and asked to buy some chickens, she said she had none to sell, Mris.  Godman said will you giue them all, so she went away, and she thought then that if this woman was naught as folkes suspect, may be she will smite my chickens, and quickly after one chicken dyed, and she remembred she had heard if they were bewitched they would consume wthin, and she opened it and it was consumed in ye gisard to water & wormes, and divers others of them droped, and now they are missing and it is likely dead, and she neuer saw either hen or chicken that was so consumed wthin wth wormes.  Mris.  Godman said goodwife Tichenor had a whole brood so, and Mris.  Hooke had some so, but for Mris.  Hookes it was contradicted presently.  This goodwife Thorp thought good to declare that it may be considered wth other things.”

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