882 A. K Verrlll—The Bermuda Islands. 



of a witch that were found on the inside of her cheekes, she answered that those 

 markes came by reason of an Impostume of the one side. And the other came 

 by a Eagged tooth on the other side, and this was about 5 yeares since, and 

 saith that Goody Todd badd her lay the curd of a lemon possett unto the said 

 impostume (and Mrs Dunscombe was then present), which curd brake it And it 

 hath bin ever since, and the other by the ragged tooth aforesd, which was filed 

 by Thomas Dunscombe & further saith not. 



(2) Thomas Dunscombe being examyned saith that if he did file any such 

 Tooth of Goody Stevenson it was more than he remembers. 



(3) The wife of Thomas Dunscombe being then examyned also sayth that she 

 doth remember that Goody Stevenson askt her husband to file a tooth, but 

 whether he did file it or noe, she knoweth not and further saith not." 



A jury of women having been appointed to search her body, 

 reported as follows : 



' ' That upon the search of the body of Goody Stevenson, they found in her 

 mouth two small Teates or Duggs, the one on the one side of her mouth & the 

 other on the other side of her mouth, which they prick't with a needle, but there 

 came forth noe blood at all from them and when they prickt they ask'd her if 

 she felt when they prickt them, & she confest that she felt them not. And 

 they say further that because they would not mistake, They did all severally 

 search her mouth and prickt these Teates, but they affirm that there came not 

 forth any blood when they did soe. And say also that they found a blew spott, 

 or like wart . . . very suspitious & against nattier, out of which came waterish 

 blood when they prickt it." 



Her trial was a long one and contains abundance of grossly absurd 

 testimony. She was accused of causing " grievous and tormenting 

 paynes" upon the bodies of several persons, and the pigs and 

 cattle of others, so that thev died. The death of a child of a neigh- 



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bor, probably from colic, was laid to her " diabolicall practises," 

 though she appears to have been a well disposed old woman, who 

 tried to help her neighbors in times of sickness and trouble. 

 She was convicted and hanged May 20, 1653. 



4- Trial of Alice Moore, 1653. 



" The attestation of John Burt taken by the grand Inquest Maye the 17, 1653. 



Who saith that some yeares since he havinge a great sowe, eyther Goodman 

 Moore or his wife, he remembereth not which of them, came to his house to buy 

 the sowe. And he sett them a price but they would not consent to yt, And a 

 matter of six weeks after the sowe pigged & then the sowe & all her piggs 

 died & further said not." 



Various other similar absurd attestations are recorded, which are 

 here omitted.* The following is a part of the testimony of John 

 Waynewright, who had previously quarreled with Mr. Moore : 



* Among other things, she was accused of preventing the " coming of butter," 

 and the compounding of soap by her neighbors. 



