John Bly with his spouse Rebecca and affirmed that Bridget Bishop marketed him or her good bewitched pig

Almost every other witnesses, including Samuel Gray, affirmed you to definitely Bishop bewitched his child so you can passing fourteen ages just before when the woman spirit quickly looked from the their domestic one night, based on police arrest records:

“Samuel Grey away from Salem Aged in the 42 many years testifieth and you may sayth one regarding 14 years ago he hitting the hay really you to definitely Lords Day at night, and you can shortly after he had been sleeping sometime, the guy awakened searching for, saw our house light as if good candle otherwise candles were illuminated with it together with door secured you to definitely nothing flames here , is raked up he did next find a lady position ranging from the newest cradle regarding the room while the sleep top…while the kid throughout the cradle gave good screech away because if it actually was greatly harm and you may she gone away and bringing the little one right up couldn’t silent it in some period away from and this date, the little one one before was a very almost certainly surviving child performed oak aside and you can is actually never ever well, though it stayed certain months after, yet inside an unfortunate position and thus died, some time after within weekly otherwise shorter the guy performed discover an equivalent girl in the same garb and you will dresses, one did actually him since the aforementioned, and even though he know perhaps not their, neither the lady label ahead of, yet both by the this lady countenance garb doth attest it was the same woman that they today call Bridget Bishop alias Oliver off Salem.”

She including told you Bridget Bishop’s spirit informed her she got killed five people, two of her or him was indeed “the fresh Foster’s spouses,” you to definitely is John Trask’s girlfriend and you may she didn’t name one other.

Several other witnesses, Samuel and you can Sarah Shuttuck offered an extended, rambling testimony about precisely how Bridget Bishop basic asked them to dye a small little bit of fabric that they sensed would not be used to own anything except that an excellent poppet (a variety of toy utilized in witchcraft), next bewitched their oldest boy and really assaulted the kid during the individual whenever she is actually confronted on the bewitching him.

One of several affected women, Susannah Sheldon including affirmed that she saw new soul regarding Thomas Green’s dual men exactly who informed her you to definitely Bridget Bishop had bewitched them to dying

“Summer 2’th 1692 John Blye Older aged from the 57 age William Blye aged regarding the fifteen years both of Salem testifieth and you will sayth you to being employed by the Bridget Bishop alias Oliver away from Salem in order to assist defeat this new basement wall of one’s dated domestic she formerly lived-in i the newest said deponants from inside the holes of your told you old wall surface of the said basements found multiple poppets made up of rags and hog bristles with headless pins when you look at the all of them with the new products outward it was in the seven ages history earlier.”

Around ten an effective.meters. into the Summer dos, Bridget Bishop, Age Proctor, Rebecca Nurse, Alice Parker, Susannah Martin and Sarah A good undergone an embarrassing bodily examination by the nine regional females and you may a dining stated shopping for abnormal growths from inside the uncommon metropolises to the some of the implicated, plus Bishop:

John Bly and you will William Bly together with affirmed which they was in fact hired by Bishop accomplish specific construction work with this lady domestic and receive poppets invisible regarding the walls of her basement, according to police arrest records:

“The initial around three, namely: Bishop, Nursing assistant and you can Proctor, from the diligent search found good preternatural excrescence out of skin between the new pudendum [genitals] and you will arse much like so you can teats perhaps not usual in women far in the place of to another three you to definitely hath already been searched from the you which they was indeed in most the three women nearby the exact same set.”