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night it stood before the fire in Mr. Parris’s hall.
    [Q]: Who was that appeared like a wolf to Hubbard as she was going from Proctures? 9
    [A]: It was Sarah Good and I saw her send the wolf to her.
    [Q]: What clothes doth the man appear unto you in?
    [A]: Black clothes sometimes, sometimes serge coat or other color, a tall man with white hair, I think.
    [Q]: What apparel do the women wear?
    [A]: I don’t know what color.
    [Q]: What kind of clothes hath she?
    [A]: A black silk hood with a white silk hood under it with topknots. Which woman I know not but have seen her in Boston when I lived there.
    [Q]: What clothes the little woman?
    [A]: A serge coat with a white cap, as I think.
    The children having fits at this very time, she was asked who hurt them.
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She answered Goody Good and the children affirmed the same, but Hubbard being taken in an extreme fit after she was asked who hurt her and she said she could not tell, but said they blinded her and would not let her see and after that was once or twice taken dumb herself.
    The Second Examination of Tituba 11
    Second Examination, March 2, 1691/2 12
    [Q]: What covenant did you make with that man that came to you? What did he tell you?
    [A]: He tell me he God and I must believe him and serve him six years and he would give me many fine things. 13
    [Q]: How long ago was this?
    [A]: About six weeks and a little more. Friday night before Abigail was ill.
    [Q]: What did he say you must do more? Did he say you must write anything? Did he offer you any paper?
    [A]: Yes. The next time he come to me and showed me some fine things. Something like creatures, a little bird something like green and white.
    [Q]: Did you promise him then when he spake to you then? What did you answer him?
    [A]: I then said this. I told him I could not believe him God. I told him I ask my master and would have gone up but he stopped me and would not let me.
    [Q]: What did you promise him?
    [A]: The first time I believe him God and then he was glad.
    [Q]: What did he say to you then? What did he say you must do?
    [A]: This: he tell me they must meet together.
    [Q]: When did he say you may meet together?
    [A]: He tell me Wednesday next at my master’s house, and then they all meet together and that night I saw them all stand in the corner, all four of them, and the man stand behind me and take hold of me to make me stand still in the hall.
    [Q]: Time of night?
    [A]: A little before prayer time.
    [Q]: What did this man say to you when he took hold of you?
    [A]: He say go into the other room and see the children and do hurt to them and pinch them. And then I went in and would not hurt them a good while. I would not hurt Betty. I loved Betty, but they haul me and make me pinch Betty and the next Abigail and then quickly went away altogether a [illegible] I had pinched them.
    [Q]: Did they pinch?
    [A]: No. But they all looked on and see me pinch them.
    [Q]: Did you go into that room in your own person and all the rest?
    [A]: Yes, and my master did not see us, for they would not let my master see.
    [Q]: Did you go with the company?
    [A]: No. I stayed and the man stayed with me.
    [Q]: What did he then to you?
    [A]: He tell me my master go to prayer and he read in book and he ask me what I remember, but don’t you remember anything.
    [Q]: Did he ask you no more but the first time to serve him or the second time?
    [A]: Yes. He ask me again. And that I serve him six years and he Com[illegible] the next time and show me a book.
    [Q]: And when would he come then?
    [A]: The next Friday and show [illegible] me a book in the daytime, betimes in the morning.
    [Q]: And what book did he bring? A great or little book?
    [A]: He did not show it me, nor would not but had it in his pocket [illegible].
    [Q]: Did not he make you write your name?
    [A]: No, not yet for my [his] mistress called me into the other room.
    [Q]: What did he say you must do in that book?
    [A]: He said write and set my name to it.
    [Q]: Did you