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Assertions for a specific being.

Name Description Original Text
Anonymous 96 (Plural)Familiars in the form of several imps who belong to a number of witches imprisoned and searched at Bury St. Edmunds, found by four searchers from Suffolk. These imps take suck from their masters, and leave teats in various parts of the body. The imps also visit in "divers other shapes," including snakes, wasps, rats, and hornets. Further also these with all the rest being searched as they were taken, were found by the searchers to have Teats or Dugs which their Jmpes used to suck so often as they came to them. And that some of them had such Teates or Dugs under their armes, some under their tongue, some in the roofe of their mouth, some on the crown of the head some amongst their toes, some in their fundament, and divers other places: their Teats were but little, some of them are shaped like a thunderbolt. These severall teats or dugs their severall Jmpes used to suck who came to them often Sometimes in the shape of Mice, sometimes in the shape of Kitens, sometimes in the shape of Snayles, and other-while in, 5 the shape of Snakes, Hornets, Waspes, and divers other shapes.

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Anonymous. A True Relation of the Araignment of Eighteene Witches. London: 1645, 4-5