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

SECT. XXII. There was another most unaccountable Circumstance which now attended her; and until she came to our House, I think, she never had Experience of it. Ever now and then, an Invisible Horse would be brought unto her, by those whom she only called, them, and, Her Company: upon the Approach of Which, her eyes would be still closed up; for (said she) They say, I am a Tell-Tale, and therefore they will not let me see them. Upon this would she give a Spring as one mounting an Horse, and Settling her self in a Riding-Posture, she would in her Chair be agitated as one sometimes Ambling, sometimes Trotting, and sometimes Galloping very furiously. In these motions we co••• not perceive that she was stirred ⟨p. 26⟩by the stress of her feet, upon the ground; for often she touched it not; but she mostly continued in her Chair, though sometimes in her hard Trot we doubted she would have been tossed over the Back of it. Once being angry at his Dullness, When she said, she would cut off his head if she had a knife, I gave her my Sheath, (wherewith she suddenly gave her self a stroke on the Neck, but complained, it would not cut. When she had rode a minute or two or three, she'd pretend to be at a Rendezvous with Them, that were Her Company; there she'd maintain a Discourse with them, and asking many Questions concerning her self, (for we gave her none of ours) she'd Listen much, and Received Answers from them that indeed none but her self perceived. Then would she return and inform us, how [They] did intend to handle her for a day or two afterwards, besides some other things that she enquired of them. Her Horse would sometimes throw her, with much Violence; but she would mount again; and one of the Standers-by once imagining [them] that were Her Company, to be before her (for she called unto them to say for her) he struck with his Cane in the Air where he thought they were, and tho her eyes were wholly shut, yet she cried out, that he struck her. Her Fantastic Journeys were mostly performed in her Chair without removing from it: but sometimes would she ride from her Chair, ⟨p. 27⟩and be carried oddly on the Floor, from one part of the Room to another, in the postures of a Riding Woman. If any of us asked her, Who her Company were? She generally replied, I don't know. But if we were instant in our Demand, she would with some witty Flout or other turn it off.