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| Anonymous 178 | A spirit from the Forest of Pendle in the Count of Lancashire, known to be black in colour and about the size of a hare or cat. James Device claimed this spirit came to him one night around midnight and sat heavily on him for about an hour, then left through his bedroom window. | The Examination of Iames Deuice of the Forrest of Pendle, in the Countie of Lancaster Labourer, taken the 27. day of April, Anno{que} Regni Regis Iacobi, Anglia, &c. Decimo: ac Scotie Quadragesimo quinto: Before Roger Nowell, and Nicholas Banister Esq , two of his Maiesties Iustices of Peace within the sayd Countie.
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And he further sayth, that about three nights after that, about midnight of the same, there came a thing, and lay vpon him very heauily about an houre, and went then from him out of his Chamber window, coloured blacke, and about the bignesse of a Hare or Catte.
Appears in:
Potts, Thomas. The Wonderfull Discovery of Witches in the County of Lancaster. London: 1613, C2
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