"It was asked Sarah Carrier by the magistrates,—
"How long hast thou been a witch?—Ever since I was six years old.
"How old are you now?—Near eight years old: brother Richard says I shall be eight years old in November next.
"Who made you a witch?—My mother: she made me set my hand to a book.
"How did you set your hand to it?—I touched it with my fingers, and the book was red: the paper of it was white.
"She said she never had seen the black man: the place where she did it was in Andrew Foster's pasture, and Elizabeth Johnson, Jr., was there. Being asked who was there besides, she answered, her aunt Toothaker and her cousin. Being asked when it was, she said, when she was baptized.
"What did they promise to give you?—A black dog.
"Did the dog ever come to you?—No.
"But you said you saw a cat once: what did that say to you?—It said it would tear me in pieces, if I would not set my hand to the book.
"She said her mother baptized her, and the Devil, or black man, was not there, as she saw; and her mother said, when she baptized her, 'Thou art mine for ever and ever. Amen.'