Joan Prentice confesses that the Devil appeared to her in the form of a ferret with firey eyes, and demanded her soul and blood in order to create an allegiance to him. The ferret sucked blood from Prentice's finger and told her its name was Bidd.(11)

Mother Baker tells the Stuppeny family that a neighbour created a heart made of wax and pricked it with pins to cause their daughter to fall ill.(146)