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her: at the Sabbath, after having worshipped the Devil, who used to stand up on his hind legs, they had connection with him under the form of a dog; then they danced back to back. And after having danced, they drank wine (she did not know what colour it was), which the Devil poured out of a jug into a silver or pewter goblet; which wine did not seem to her so good as that which was usually drunk; they also ate white bread which he presented to them--she had never seen any salt at the Sabbath. Confessed that the Devil had charged her to call, as she passed, for _Isabel le Moygne_: when she came to the Sabbath, which she had done several times. On leaving the Sabbath the Devil incited her to commit various evil deeds: and to that effect he gave her certain black powders, which he ordered her to throw upon such persons and cattle as she wished; with this powder she perpetrated several wicked acts which she did not remember: among others she threw some upon _Mr Dolbell_, parish minister: and was the occasion of his death by these means. With this same powder she bewitched the wife of _Jean Maugues_: but denied that the woman's death was caused by it: she also touched on the side, and threw some of this powder over the deceased wife of _Mr Perchard_, the minister who succeeded the said _Dolbell_ in the parish, she being _enceinte_ at the time, and so caused the death of her and her infant--she did not know that the deceased woman had given her any cause for doing so. Upon the refusal of the wife of _Collas Tottevin_ to give her some milk: she caused her cow to dry up, by throwing upon it some of this powder: which cow she afterwards cured again by making it eat some bran, and some terrestrial herb that the Devil gave her. CONFESSION DE MARIE BECQUET. _Marie_, femme de _Pierre Massy_, appres sentence de mort prononcee a l'encontre d'elle, ayant este mise a la question, a confesse qu'elle est Sorciere; et qu'a la persuation du Diable, quj s'aparut a elle en forme de chien: elle se donna a luy: que lors que se donna a luy ill la print de sa patte par la main: qu'elle s'est oint du mesme onguent que sa mere s'oignoit: et a este au Sabath sur la banque pres du Chateau de Rocquaine, avec luy, ou n'y avoit que le Diable et elle, se luy sembloit: en la susdite forme en laquelle elle la veu plusieurs fois. A ete aussi au Sabath une fois entre autres en la rue, _Collas Tottevin_; que toutes les fois qu'elle alloit au Sabath
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