Alice Huson of Burton Agnes, Yorkshire is accused of bewitching Faith Corbet, causing her to scream, bite, and scratch.(53)

Alice Huson of Burton Agnes, Yorkshire confesses to having the devil appear to her in the form of a black man; He promised her financial security if she would bind herself to him and forsake the Lord. He kept this promise in as much as that he gave her small sums of money six or seven times. (58)

Alice Huson asks to be paid for the services she provides Mrs. Corbet, with a piece of cloth which Corbet's children had worn next to their skin. Corbet gives her a neck cloth made of an old sheet, Huson refuses the gift; still she often frequents the Corbet's home and is given 'meat and drink'(52-53)

Faith Corbet begins to have fits not long after her gloves went missing. Faith had been scolded by her mother ealier for suggesting Huson was a witch, and does not immediately accuse her of the theft. However, Faith but comes to blame Alice Huson, who had been sitting alone in her mother's kitchen, for the loss of her gloves and her subsequent fits. (53)

Faith Corbet's fits are diagnosed by 'numerous people' as natural. They are categorized as hysteria, melancholy, and convulsions.(53-54)

Faith Corbet is seen by a battery of physicians from all over York over a four year period. Corbet responds to their treatments only sometimes; her fits come in intervals.(53-54, 56)

Faith asserts that the day her sister goes into labour (which happens on March 22, 1663, the beginning of the year Faith lives with her), a black cat lurches at her and frightens her. The implication is that this is Huson. After three days of examination, Huson admits to transmogrifying into a cat, but get's the details wrong. She says she was under a window and Faith said the cat was at the door.(54-55, 58)

Faith Corbet suffers from the worst of her fits: it last twenty two hours. Sometimes her tongue hangs out, sometimes her teeth grit. Her legs and arms twist, her stomach carves in. She lays still with her eyes open, as though dead, but can hear, understand, and at times accuse Alice Huson and Doll Bilby.(55)

Faith Corbet, after a short recovery, facilitated by the presence and attention of three doctors, again falls into fits after seeing Doll Bilby. Henry Corbet decide to take action against Alice Huson and Doll Bilby(56-57)

Alice Huson and Doll Bilby are apprehended as witches, at the behest of Henry Corbet. His daughter, Faith Corbet, had accused both women of bewitching her for over four years.(56-57)

Alice Huson and Doll Bilby are examined as witches, at the behest of Henry Corbet. His daughter, Faith Corbet, had accused both women of bewitching her for over four years.(55-56)

Alice Huson, during her re-examination as a witch (done at the behest of Henry Corbet) confesses to bewitching Faith Corbet.(55-56)

Alice Huson and Doll Bilby are jailed as witches, at the behest of Henry Corbet. After 3 days of interrogation and searching (beginning on the 26th and ending on the 29th of April 1644), both women confessed to bewitching his daughter Faith.(55-56)

The devil in the shape of a black man with cloven feet and upon a horse appears to Alice Huson. He promises her that if she would give herself to him, she should never want. She agrees and her gives her money (5 or 7 shillings, altogether about 7 times). She falls to her knees and worships him, because she 'said [she] would.'(58)

Alice Huson allegedly transforms herself into a black cat in order to frighten Faith Corbet. She confesses to this at trial.(54-55, 58)

Alice Huson confesses 'in her own words' to killing Dick Warren. She committed this crime through use of the evil eye and ill intent.(59)

Alice Huson is allegedly tormented by the devil.(58-59)

Alice Huson allegedly has a witch's mark from which the devil sucks.(58-59)

"The Wisemen" from Knaresborough Forest (the home of many of the accused witch's in Edward Fairfax's account), allegedly teach the locals to burn calves as an act of counter magic when their cows will not give milk(34-34)

Helen Fairfax falls into a 'trance' where she lays 'as though dead' for several hours. During this time, she imagined she had been in Leeds, hearing sermon given by Mr. Cooke.(37)

Helen Fairfax speaks to dead siblings during a series of trances. Her condition is attributed to hysteria. (37)

Helen Fairfax claims that a cat had stole her breath and replaced it with a "filthy smell" which poisoned her. After this occurrence she began to gurgle and vomit blood during her fits.(38)

The devil in the shape of a gentleman appears to Helen Fairfax, promising to marry her and make her the queen of England. The man forbids her from naming God, and refuses to approach her, so that she can tell by touch if he is an apparition or not.(38-39)

The devil in the shape of a gentleman appears to Helen Fairfax and attempts to persuade her to kill herself with a knife, a rope, and a "great pin" which is in her petticoat. Fairfax refuses, and shows the pin to her family when she awakes from her fit.(39)

Minister Cook and William Fairfax exorcise the gentleman devil (who had been tormenting Helen Fairfax and tempting her to suicide) from the room by reciting prayers and reading psalms.(39-40)

The devil transforms from a "beast with many horns," to a calf, to a little dog. As a dog, he demands Helen Fairfax open her mouth so he could enter and possess her. (41)

The devil claims to have ten thousand angels working for him. He attempts to frighten and tempt Helen Fairfax with a series of strange visions; he presents her with the vision of a horse, chopping its head off when she refuses to mount it and fills the kitchen with fire. (40-41)

The devil in the shape of a gentleman appears to Helen Fairfax with the image of a naked child which he proceeds to beat. He admits the image is an image of her, which is used to bewitch her. He also offers to lay the image in bed with her (as one would lay in bed with their infant). The same image appears later in the afternoon when one of two 'boys' who had appeared to Helen stand it up, dance about it, throw their hats at, and kick it.(58)

Elizabeth Fairfax is "touched" by Elizabeth Fletcher, who picks up Fairfax, who is standing by the fire, and moves her, taking her spot and signifying the moment of possession contamination. Lady Fairfax suggested that if Fletcher was a witch, the child would soon ail; the bewitchment manifest 4 days later. (60)

Elizabeth Fairfax sees a poor boy lurking in the halls of her parent's home. Two day's later, while sitting on Elizabeth Smith's knee, the boy approached her again and threatened to drown her (as her sister had been threatened). At this time she identifies the boy as Elizabeth Fletcher's spirit.(60-61)

Helen and Elizabeth Fairfax, over a series of 4 days, allegedly experience simultaneous trances, during which they share visions of two cats fighting, a woman, an old man, and a "deformed thing, having the face of a woman, and all the body besides rough and mis-shapen."(66-68)

Helen and Elizabeth Fairfax simultaneously experience "great agony" and great sickness from Jan 31-February 2; a week later they fall into fits which look like hysteria.(67-68)

An old wet woman, later revealed to be Jennet Dibble, appears to Helen Fairfax. She allegedly showed her images of herself, her sister, and Maud Jeffray.(71)

An old wet woman who is later identified as Jennet Dibble, claims to have been a witch for 40 years. She also identifies Elizabeth Fletcher as the witch who bewitched Elizabeth, Margaret Waite as a witch, and her daughter Maragaret Thorpe as the witch who had visited Helen.(71-72)

Helen Fairfax loses the ability to move based on touch of a phantom hand on her bare legs and the touch of phantom fingertips on her eyelids.(54-55)

Fairfax's bewitchment is traced to the penny which Mrs. Fairfax had accepted from Margaret Waite Senior as a tariff on her corn sales. This penny, a penny which was never where it was supposed to be, and would not melt in the fire, would come to haunt Helen Fairfax. Edward Fairfax finally "dissolved with brimestone and fire and beat it to powder upon a stone."(42-45)

A woman who appears like Helen Fairfax's aunt appears to her, giving her a handful of spice. Helen accuses the woman of being a witch and throws the spice into the fire, later revealing it was a handful of raisins. (64-65)

Margaret Thorpe appears to Helen and Elizabeth Fairfax and threatens to give them a witch's mark -- so that she might recognize them.(69-70)

Helen and Elizabeth Fairfax first meet Maud Jeffrey; they all instantaneously fall into fits. (71)

Margaret Thorpe, Peg Wait, and Jennit Dibble are searched as witches; Helen Fairfax is called in to identify Thorpe as the woman with a spot on her face who had tormented her. Helen identified Wait and Dibble (by name) as witches.(78)

Margaret Thorpe allegedly shows Helen Fairfax a paper signed with blood, describes as a 'lease,' the paper is Thorpe's malefic compact, and supposedly representative of all malefic compacts. (87)

A Justice of the Peace asks that Helen Fairfax and Margaret Thorpe appear before him, so that they can 'test' Thorpe. This JP later confides in Fairfax that he will test Thorpe a witch by making her recite the Lord's prayer.(87- 88)

Edward Fairfax claims that 'witch testing' as demonstrated with witch-scratching, is, like witchcraft, the devil's work.(88-89)

Helen Fairfax allegedly finds a hazel staff which belongs to The Strange Woman (Anonymous 116), who confesses to leaving it out in the open as a bewitchment contaminate, and tries to wrestle it from Fairfax's hands. Fairfax escapes with it, runs inside and holds it in the fire -- an act of counter-magic to burn the spell off of it and render it benign again.(90)

Thomas Forrest is allegedly attacked by group of cats as he rides past Margaret Wait's home which follow him a great distance at a great speed. Helen Fairfax later claims these cats where witches that had shape shifted into cats to "touch" Forrest and bewitch him.(91)

Henry Graver allegedly hired Margaret Waite and Margaret Thorpe to bewitch Helen and Elizabeth Fairfax and Maud Jeffray. He continued to pay for the witch's for silence on the matter (or they blackmailed him).(92)

The Strange Woman, (Anonymous 116) allegedly sat, in the form of a cat, in from of the fire at Margaret Waite's home, where she overheard Henry Graver hire Margaret Waite and Margaret Thorpe to bewitch Maud Jeffray and Helen and Elizabeth Fairfax. (92)

The Strange Woman allegedly shows Helen Fairfax eight 'images' of people she bewitched; Jennit Dibble allegedly shows her eight eggs she had stolen. (95-96, 104-105)

Jennit Dibble allegedly confesses to transforming herself into the shape of an old man and looming over the children in the nursery with a knife. She claims she helped cause Anne Fairfax's death in this way -- i.e. she scared her to death. (106)

Helen Fairfax claims to see the Vicar Smithson and Margaret Waite (Jr.) "making hay."(129)

Helen Fairfax is unable to eat for close to two weeks; she appears close to death.(130-133)

Margaret Waite (Jr.) and Margaret Thorpe are brought before Helen Fairfax, Elizabeth Fairfax, and Maud Jeffrays by a local constable. The young women remain otherwise senseless, but are able to speak with Margaret Waite and Margaret Thorpe. Upon waking, they also claim the have conversed with Peg Waite.(77)

Edmund Robinson Jr. claims Frances Dickenson took him to a house where many people were feasting. He claims he was offered meat and bread by a woman he knew not (Anonymous 156), but he refused to eat it after one bite. (lxii)