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do stand that she said this morning that she was more like to be bewitched than that she was a witch.
    Mr. Harthon asked her what made her say so.
    She answered that she was frighted one time in her sleep and either saw or dreamed that she saw a thing like an Indian all black,
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which did pinch her in her neck and pulled her by the back part of her head to the door of the house.
    [Hathorne]: Did you never see anything else?
    [Sarah Osburn]: No. It was said by some in the meetinghouse that she had said that she would never believe that lying spirit any more.
    [Hathorne]: What lying spirit is this? Hath the Devil ever deceived you and been false to you?
    [Sarah Osburn]: I do not know the Devil. I never did see him.
    [Hathorne]: What lying spirit was it, then?
    [Sarah Osburn]: It was a voice that I thought I heard.
    [Hathorne]: What did it propound to you?
    [Sarah Osburn]: That I should go no more to meeting but she [scored out] I said I would and did go the next Sabbath day.
    [Hathorne]: Were you never tempted further?
    [Sarah Osburn]: No.
    [Hathorne]: Why did you yield thus far to the Devil as never to go to meeting since.
    [Sarah Osburn]: Alas I have been sick and not able to go.
    Her husband and others said that she had not been at meeting these year and two months.
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    The [scored out] examination of Tituba
    [Hathorne]: Tituba, what sp[scored out] evil spirit have you familiarity with?
    [Tituba]: None.
    [Hathorne]: Why do you hurt these children?
    [Tituba]: I do not hurt them.
    [Hathorne]: Who is it then the de [scored out]
    [Tituba]: The Devil for ought I ken 14 [scored out] know.
    [Hathorne]: Did you never see the [illegible] Devil?
    [Tituba]: The Devil came to me and bid me serve him.
    [Hathorne]: Who have you seen?
    [Tituba]: 4 women and [scored out] sometimes hurt the children.
    [Hathorne]: Who were they?
    [Tituba]: Goody Osburn and Sarah Good and I do not know who the others were. Sarah Good and Osburn would have me hurt the children, but I would not.
    She further saith there was a tall man of Boston that she did see.
    [Hathorne]: When did you see them?
    [Tituba]: Last night at Boston. 15
    [Hathorne]: What did they say to you?
    [Tituba]: They said, hurt the children.
    [Hathorne]: And did you hurt them? No [scored out]
    [Tituba]: No. There is 4 women and one man. They hurt the s[scored out] children and then lay all upon here 16 and they tell me if I will not hurt the children they will hurt me.
    [Hathorne]: But did you not hurt them.
    [Tituba]: Yes, but I will hurt them no more.
    [Hathorne]: Are you not sorry that you did hurt them?
    [Tituba]: Yes.
    [Hathorne]: And why then do you hurt them?
    [Tituba]: They say hurt children or we will do worse to you.
    [Hathorne]: What have you seen?
    [Tituba]: A man come to me and say serve me.
    [Hathorne]: What service?
    [Tituba]: Hurt the children and last night there was an appearance that said K[scored out] kill thechildren and if I would not go on hurting the children they would do worse to me.
    [Hathorne]: What is this appearance you see?
    [Tituba]: Sometimes it is like a hog and sometimes like a great dog.
    This appearance she saith she did see 4 times.
    [Hathorne]: What did it say to you?
    [Tituba]: It s[scored out] the black dog said serve me but I said I am afraid. He said if I did not he would do worse to me.
    [Hathorne]: What did you say to it?
    [Tituba]: 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.
    [Hathorne]: What were these pretty things?
    [Tituba]: He did not show me them.
    [Hathorne]: What else have you seen?
    [Tituba]: Two cats: a red cat and a black cat. 17
    [Hathorne]: What did they say to you?
    [Tituba]: They said, serve me.
    [Hathorne]: When did you see them last? [scored out]
    [Tituba]: Last night and they said serve me but I she [scored out] said I