Chapter 20
VI. Nebemiab Abbot teftify d, that unufual ang
mifchievous Accidents would befal his cattle, wher}
ever he had: any Difference with this Prifond’
Once, Particulary, fhe wilhed his Oxe Choaked]
and withio a Litde while, that Oxe wis Choakef
with a Turnip in his Throat. At another tim’
refufing to lend. his horfe, at the Requelt- of leh
Daughter, the horfe was in a Preternatural manne}
atufed. . And feveral other. Odd) Things, of cht
kind’ were .teftifySd. 0% ace? al
VIL ‘There came in Teftimony, that one goot}
wife Sherwins. upon fome “Difference ‘with Hoa}
was. Bewitched, and, that fhe Dy‘d, Charg#hg th|
How of having: an’ Hand in her Death. And thi
other People, had their Barrels of Drink unaccoutt
tably mifchief’d, fpoil:, and: fpilt, upon their Diy
pleating of her. ik
The things in themfelves, were Trivial; bri!
there being fuch a Courte of them, it made ther!
the more ta: be confidered: Among others, Marti
Wood gave her ‘Teftimony, that a Lice: aiter, hr!
Father had been:employ*din gathering an’ Accoul!
of ‘this -Howes. Gonverfation, they ‘otice ‘and. aga’!
Loft-Great Quantities of Drink out of their Velie”
in fach:a manner, as they could afcribe to nothits
but Witchéfaft. As alfo, that How giving I’
forme Apples, when fhe had eaten of them) fhe w|
taken with a very ftrange kind of a maze jinfomur’
that fhe kacw not what fhe faid or didy 9). “i
VIEL There was Likewife a clufter of Depo’
ait, chat_one I/aac Cammings, vefafing to lend I
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‘ j he Bealt {eemed much Abuted; being Bruifed,
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