The Discovery of Witches

The Discoverer never travelled far for it, but in March 1644 hehad some seven or eight of that horrible sect of Witches living in the Townewhere he lived, a Towne in Essex called Maningtree, with divers otheradjacent Witches of other towns, who every six weeks in the night (beingalwayes on the Friday night) had their meeting close by his house and hadtheir severall solemne sacrifices there offered to the Devill, one of whichthis discoverer heard speaking to her Imps one night, and bid them goe toanother Witch, who was thereupon apprehended, and searched, by women who hadfor many yeares knowne the Devills marks, and found to have three teats abouther, which honest women have not: so upon command from the Justice they wereto keep her from sleep two or three nights, expecting in that time to see herfamiliars, which the fourth night she called in by their severall names, andtold them what shapes, a quarter of an houre before they came in, there beingten of us in the roome, the first she called was