The servant Richard Burt, while taking his lunch at work in his master's barn around the hour of noon is visited by a "monstrous blacke Cat among the straw." The animal acts strangely and startles him.(3)

Richard Burt, after being startled by a monstrous black cat during the course of his lunch around noon, hears a strange voice that commands him to leave his master's workplace. Upon asking where he is expected the go, "the Spirit answering againe sayde: Come and leave thy vittles behind thee and thy knife also."(3)

After being commanded by a voice to leave his master's barn, the servant Richard Burt is "hoised up into the aire" and carried over many fields and a great pond where his hat fell, and over Harrow Church. Even though he cried out, none could hear him, and he ended up "into a place which was all fire, where was heard such lamentable howling and dollful crieng, as if all the damned fiends of hell had been tortured, and tormenten in that Limbo."(4)