Parentator. Memoirs of remarkables in the life and the death of the ever-memorable Dr.…

until the Importunity of the outcries, ⟨p. 163⟩with the Calamity of the Accusers, compelled the Magistrates to Examine them. When the Accused came upon their Examination, it was found, that the Daemons had unto the Afflicted People, exactly Represented them, and it was found, that the Accused but casting their Eye on the Afflicted the Afflicted though their Faces were never so much another way, would fall down, and lie in a sort of a Swoon, wherein they would continue, whatever Hands were laid upon them, until the Hands of the Accused came to touch them, and then they would revive Immediately. And it was found, that Various kinds of Natural Actions, done by the Accused in or to their own Bodies, as, Leaning, Bending, Turning awry, or Sq•ezing their Hands, or the like, were presently attended with the like Things Preternaturally done on the Bodies of the Afflicted, though they were so far asunder, that they could not Possibly Observe one another. It was also •ound, that the Flesh of the Afflicted was often bitten at such a rate, not that only the Print of Teeth would be left on their Flesh, but the very Slaver of Spittle too: And there would appear just such a Sat of Teeth, as was in the Accused, even such as might be clearly distinguished from other Peoples. And usually the Afflicted went thorough a deal of seeming Difficulties from the Tormenting Spectres, and must be long waited on, before they could get a Breathing-Space, from their Torments to give in their Testimonies.

until the Importunity of the outcries, ⟨p. 163⟩with the Calamity of the Accusers, compelled the Magistrates to Examine them. When the Accused came upon their Examination, it was found, that the Daemons had unto the Afflicted People, exactly Represented them, and it was found, that the Accused but casting their Eye on the Afflicted the Afflicted though their Faces were never so much another way, would fall down, and ly in a sort of a Swoon, wherein they would continue, whatever Hands were laid upon them, until the Hands of the Accused came to touch them, and then they would revive Immediately. And it was found, that Various kinds of Natural Actions, done by the Accused in or to their own Bodies, as, Leaning, Bending, Turning awry, or Sq•ezing their Hands, or the like, were presently attended with the like Things Preternaturally done on the Bodies of the Afflicted, though they were so far asunder, that they could not Possibly Observe one another. It was also ound, that the Flesh of the Afflicted was often bitten at such a rate, not that only the Print of Teeth would be left on their Flesh, but the very Slaver of Spittle too: And there would appear just such a Sat of Teeth, as was in the Accused, even such as might be clearly distinguished from other Peoples. And usually the Afflicted went thorough a deal of seeming Difficulties from the Tormenting Spectres, and must be long waited on, before they could get a Breathing-Space, from their Torments to give in their Testimonies.