"And did you hurt them?—No: there is four women and one man, they hurt the children, and then they lay all upon me; and they tell me, if I will not hurt the children, they will hurt me.
"But did you not hurt them?—Yes; but I will hurt them no more.
"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.