… Hopkins claimed he spied on the witches as they held their meeting close by his house, and heard them mention the name of a local woman. She was arrested and deprived of sleep for four nights, at the end of which she confessed and called out the names of her familiars, describing the forms in which they should appear. They were:

• Holt, “who came in like a white kittling”

• Jarmara, “who came in like a fat Spaniel without any legs at all”

• Vinegar Tom, “who was like a long-legg’d greyhound, with a head like an Oxe”

• Sacke and Sugar, “like a black Rabbet”

• Newes, “like a Polecat”(a Polecat is a type of weasle.)

• Elemanzer, Pyewacket, Peck in the Crown, Grizzel Greedigut, described as imps

(Source: slpdprvd)

… Hopkins claimed he spied on the witches as they held their meeting close by his house, and heard them mention the name of a local woman. She was arrested and deprived of sleep for four nights, at the end of which she confessed and called out the names of her familiars, describing the forms in which they should appear. They were:

• Holt, “who came in like a white kittling”

• Jarmara, “who came in like a fat Spaniel without any legs at all”

• Vinegar Tom, “who was like a long-legg’d greyhound, with a head like an Oxe”

• Sacke and Sugar, “like a black Rabbet”

• Newes, “like a Polecat”(a Polecat is a type of weasle.)

• Elemanzer, Pyewacket, Peck in the Crown, Grizzel Greedigut, described as imps

(Source: slpdprvd)