Memorable providences relating to witchcrafts and possessions a faithful account of many wonderful and…

SECT. XIII. The Fits of the Children yet more arrived unto such Motions as were beyond the Efficacy of any natural Distemper in the world. ⟨p. 14⟩They would bark at one another like Dogs, and again purr like so many Cats. They would sometimes complain, that they were in a Red-hot Oven, sweating and panting at the same time unreasonably: Anon they would say, Cold water was thrown upon them, at which they would shiver very much. They would cry out of dismal Blows with great Cudgels laid upon them; and tho we saw no cudgels nor blows, yet we could see the Marks left by them in Red Streaks upon their bodies afterward. And one of them would be roasted on an invisible Spit, run into his Mouth, and out at his Foot, he lying, and rolling, and groaning as if it had been so in the most sensible manner in the world; and then he would shriek, that Knives were cutting of him. Sometimes also he would have his head so forcibly, tho not visibly, nailed unto the Floor, that it was as much as a strong man could do to pull it up. One while they would all be so Limber, that it was judged every Bone of them could be bent. Another while they would be so stiff, that not a joint of them could be stirred: They would sometimes be as though they were mad, and then they would climb over high Fences, beyond the Imagination of them that looked after them. Yea, They would fly like Geese; and be carried with an incredible Swiftness through the air, having, but just their Toes now and then upon the ground, and their Arms waved like the Wings ⟨p. 15⟩of a Bird. One of them, in the House of a kind Neighbour and Gentleman (Mr. Willis) flow the length of the Room, about 20 foot, and flew just into an Infants high armed Chair; (as tis affirmed) none seeing her feet all the way touch the the floor.

SECT. XIII. The Fits of the Children yet more arriv'd unto such Motions as vvere beyond the Efficacy of any natural Distemper in the vvorld. ⟨p. 14⟩They would bark at one another like Dogs, and again purr like so many Cats. They would sometimes complain, that they were in a Red-hot Oven, sweating and panting at the same time unreasonably: Anon they would say, Cold water was thrown upon them, at which they would shiver very much. They would cry out of dismal Blowes with great Cudgels laid upon them; and tho we saw no cudgels nor blowes, yet we could see the Marks left by them in Red Streaks upon their bodies afterward. And one of them would be roasted on an invisible Spit, run into his Mouth, and out at his Foot, he lying, and rolling, and groaning as if it had been so in the most sensible manner in the world; and then he would shriek, that Knives were cutting of him. Sometimes also he would have his head so forcibly, tho not visibly, nail'd unto the Floor, that it was as much as a strong man could do to pull it up. One while they would all be so Limber, that it was judg'd every Bone of them could be bent. Another while they would be so stiff, that not a joint of them could be stir'd: They would sometimes be as though they were mad, and then they would climb over high Fences, beyond the Imagination of them that look'd after them. Yea, They would fly like Geese; and be carried with an incredible Swiftness thro the air, having, but just their Toes now and then upon the ground, and their Arms waved like the Wings