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court ordered his hands to be tied.
[Q]: What, is it not enough to act witchcraft at other times, but must you do it now in the face of authority?
[A]: I am a poor creature, and cannot help it.
Upon the motion of his head again, they had their heads and necks afflicted.
[Q]: Why do you tell such wicked lies against witnesses, that heard you speak after this manner, this very morning?
[A]: I never saw anything but a black hog.
[Q]: You said that you were stopped once in prayer. What stopped you?
[A]: I cannot tell. My wife came toward me and found fault with me for saying living to God and dying to sin.
[Q]: What was it frighted you in the barn?
[A]: I know nothing frighted me there.
[Q]: Why, here are three witnesses that heard you say so today.
[A]: I do not remember it.
Thomas Gold testified that he heard him say that he knew enough against his wife that would do her business.
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[Q]: What was that you knew against your wife?
[A]: Why that of living to God, and dying to sin.
The marshal and Bibber’s daughter confirmed the same, that he said he could say that that would do his wife’s business.
[A]: I have said what I can say to that.
[Q]: What was that about your ox?
[A]: I thought he was hipt. 7
[Q]: What ointment was that your wife had when she was seized? You said it was ointment she made by Major Gidney’s direction.
He denied it, and said she had it of Goody Bibber, or from her direction.
Goody Bibber said it is not like that ointment.
[Q]: You said you knew, upon your own acknowledgment, that she had it of Major Gidney.
He denied it.
[Q]: Did not you say, when you went to the ferry with your wife, you would not go over to Boston now, for you should come yourself the next week?
[A]: I would not go over, because I had not money.
The marshal testified he said as before.
One of his hands was let go, and several were afflicted.
He held his head on one side, and then the heads of several of the afflicted were held on one side. He drew in his cheeks, and the cheeks of some of the afflicted were sucked in.
John Bibber and his wife gave in testimony concerning some temptations he had to make away with himself.
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[Q]: How doth this agree with what you said, that you had no temptations?
[A]: I meant temptations to witchcraft.
[Q]: If you can give way to self-murder, that will make way to temptation to witchcraft.
Note. There was witness by several that he said he would make away with himself, and charge his death upon his son.
Goody Bibber testified that the said Cory called said Bibber’s husband damned, devilish rogue.
Other vile expressions testified in open court by several others.
Salem Village, April 19, 1692
Mr. Samuel Parris being desired to take in writing the examination of Giles Cory, delivered it in, and upon hearing the same, and seeing what we did see at the time of his examination, together with the charge of the afflicted persons against him, we committed him to Their Majesties’ jail.
John Hathorne
EXAMINATIONS OF ABIGAIL HOBBS IN PRISON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1692
In this examination, confessed witch Abigail Hobbs accused George Burroughs, the previous minister in Salem Village, of being a witch. After his time in Salem, Burroughs had moved to Falmouth, Maine, where Hobbs knew him when she was living there with her family. Abigail claimed that Burroughs had brought her puppets to stick with thorns, including a puppet of his wife, which was a reference to the image magic that appeared frequently in accounts of early modern English folk magic. This examination elucidates the fact that the Salem Villagers would have seen the presence of witches in their midst as part of an overarching attack on their godly settlement by the Devil, who was also responsible for the attacks on their settlements by Catholic Indians and French, and who was recruiting witches to Maine in league with the Wabanaki tribe.
With the naming of George Burroughs, a man and a respected minister, as a
[Q]: What, is it not enough to act witchcraft at other times, but must you do it now in the face of authority?
[A]: I am a poor creature, and cannot help it.
Upon the motion of his head again, they had their heads and necks afflicted.
[Q]: Why do you tell such wicked lies against witnesses, that heard you speak after this manner, this very morning?
[A]: I never saw anything but a black hog.
[Q]: You said that you were stopped once in prayer. What stopped you?
[A]: I cannot tell. My wife came toward me and found fault with me for saying living to God and dying to sin.
[Q]: What was it frighted you in the barn?
[A]: I know nothing frighted me there.
[Q]: Why, here are three witnesses that heard you say so today.
[A]: I do not remember it.
Thomas Gold testified that he heard him say that he knew enough against his wife that would do her business.
6
[Q]: What was that you knew against your wife?
[A]: Why that of living to God, and dying to sin.
The marshal and Bibber’s daughter confirmed the same, that he said he could say that that would do his wife’s business.
[A]: I have said what I can say to that.
[Q]: What was that about your ox?
[A]: I thought he was hipt. 7
[Q]: What ointment was that your wife had when she was seized? You said it was ointment she made by Major Gidney’s direction.
He denied it, and said she had it of Goody Bibber, or from her direction.
Goody Bibber said it is not like that ointment.
[Q]: You said you knew, upon your own acknowledgment, that she had it of Major Gidney.
He denied it.
[Q]: Did not you say, when you went to the ferry with your wife, you would not go over to Boston now, for you should come yourself the next week?
[A]: I would not go over, because I had not money.
The marshal testified he said as before.
One of his hands was let go, and several were afflicted.
He held his head on one side, and then the heads of several of the afflicted were held on one side. He drew in his cheeks, and the cheeks of some of the afflicted were sucked in.
John Bibber and his wife gave in testimony concerning some temptations he had to make away with himself.
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[Q]: How doth this agree with what you said, that you had no temptations?
[A]: I meant temptations to witchcraft.
[Q]: If you can give way to self-murder, that will make way to temptation to witchcraft.
Note. There was witness by several that he said he would make away with himself, and charge his death upon his son.
Goody Bibber testified that the said Cory called said Bibber’s husband damned, devilish rogue.
Other vile expressions testified in open court by several others.
Salem Village, April 19, 1692
Mr. Samuel Parris being desired to take in writing the examination of Giles Cory, delivered it in, and upon hearing the same, and seeing what we did see at the time of his examination, together with the charge of the afflicted persons against him, we committed him to Their Majesties’ jail.
John Hathorne
EXAMINATIONS OF ABIGAIL HOBBS IN PRISON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1692
In this examination, confessed witch Abigail Hobbs accused George Burroughs, the previous minister in Salem Village, of being a witch. After his time in Salem, Burroughs had moved to Falmouth, Maine, where Hobbs knew him when she was living there with her family. Abigail claimed that Burroughs had brought her puppets to stick with thorns, including a puppet of his wife, which was a reference to the image magic that appeared frequently in accounts of early modern English folk magic. This examination elucidates the fact that the Salem Villagers would have seen the presence of witches in their midst as part of an overarching attack on their godly settlement by the Devil, who was also responsible for the attacks on their settlements by Catholic Indians and French, and who was recruiting witches to Maine in league with the Wabanaki tribe.
With the naming of George Burroughs, a man and a respected minister, as a
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