“Are you not sorry that you did hurt them?—­Yes.

     “And why, then, do you hurt them?—­They say, ’Hurt children,
     or we will do worse to you.’

     “What have you seen?—­A man come to me, and say, ‘Serve me.’

“What service?—­Hurt the children:  and last night there was an appearance that said, ‘Kill the children;’ and, if I would not go on hurting the children, they would do worse to me.

     “What is this appearance you see?—­Sometimes it is like a
     hog, and sometimes like a great dog.

     “(This appearance she saith she did see four times.)

     “What did it say to you?—­The black dog said, ‘Serve me;’
     but I said, ‘I am afraid.’  He said, if I did not, he would
     do worse to me.

“What did you say to it?—­I will serve you no longer.  Then he said he would hurt me; and then he looks like a man, and threatens to hurt me. (She said that this man had a yellow-bird that kept with him.) And he told me he had more pretty things that he would give me, if I would serve him.

     “What were these pretty things?—­He did not show me them.

     “What else have you seen?—­Two cats; a red cat, and a black
     cat.

     “What did they say to you?—­They said, ‘Serve me.’

     “When did you see them?—­Last night; and they said, ’Serve
     me;’ but I said I would not.

     “What service?—­She said, hurt the children.

     “Did you not pinch Elizabeth Hubbard this morning?—­The man
     brought her to me, and made pinch her.

     “Why did you go to Thomas Putnam’s last night, and hurt his
     child?—­They pull and haul me, and make go.

     “And what would they have you do?—­Kill her with a knife.

“(Lieutenant Fuller and others said at this time, when the child saw these persons, and was tormented by them, that she did complain of a knife,—­that they would have her cut her head off with a knife.)

     “How did you go?—­We ride upon sticks, and are there
     presently.

     “Do you go through the trees or over them?—­We see nothing,
     but are there presently.

     “Why did you not tell your master?—­I was afraid:  they said
     they would cut off my head if I told.

     “Would you not have hurt others, if you could?—­They said
     they would hurt others, but they could not.

     “What attendants hath Sarah Good?—­A yellow-bird, and she
     would have given me one.

     “What meat did she give it?—­It did suck her between her
     fingers.

     “Did you not hurt Mr. Curren’s child?—­Goody Good and Goody
     Osburn told that they did hurt Mr. Curren’s child, and would
     have had me hurt him too; but I did not.

     “What hath Sarah Osburn?—­Yesterday she had a thing with a
     head like a woman, with two legs and wings.