Richard Burt, servent to M. Edling, goes to his master's barn, accompanied by a "great massive dogge." Along the way there, a hare crosses their path and the dog "in stead of following began to faint, and runne rounde his maister, and to whine pitifully." (2-3)

The servant Richard Burt follows a hare that crossed the path of him and his dog to Mother Atkin's house, "whome before that time he knew to be a notorious witche."(2-3)

Richard Burt finds himself after he has been magically "hoised up into the aire," in a strange place, which is dark, "plentiful in filthy odors and stinches," full of noise, and full of fire. This causes an "unquenchable drouth in his stomach," although there is nowhere for him to find refreshment. (4)

Jane Throckmorton is said to have been subjected to the most dangerous temptations of all of the Throckmorton girls. She is allegedly "often and divers times tempted to cast her selfe into the fire, and into the water, and to deprive her selfe of life by cutting her throate with her owne knife." During her fits, she is often seen to pull a knife from its sheath and throw it as far from her as she can, or under furniture, while proclaiming "the spirit doth now tempt her to kill her selfe, but she will not." She will also try to force herself into the fire, so that if she were not restrained, she would fall flat on it.(98-100)