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The Discovery of Witches by Matthew Hopkins
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Answ.

The reasons in breefe are three, which for the present he judgeth to
differ from naturall marks which are:

1. He judgeth by the unusualnes of the place where he findeth the
teats in or on their bodies being farre distant from any usuall
place, from whence such naturall markes proceed, as if a witch plead
the markes found are Emerods, if I finde them on the bottome of the
back-bone, shall I assent with him, knowing they are not neere that
veine, and so others by child-bearing, when it may be they are in the
contrary part?

2. They are most commonly insensible, and feele neither pin, needle,
aule, &c. thrust through them.

3. The often variations and mutations of these marks into severall
formes, confirmes the matter; as if a Witch hear a month or two before
that the _Witch-finder_ (as they call him) is comming they will, and
have put out their Imps to others to suckle them, even to their owne
young and tender children; these upon search are found to have dry
skinnes and filmes only, and be close to the flesh, keepe her 24.
houres with a diligent eye, that none of her Spirits come in any
visible shape to suck her; the women have seen the next day after her
Teats extended out to their former filling length, full of corruption
ready to burst, and leaving her alone then one quarter of an houre,
and let the women go up againe and shee will have them drawn by her
Imps close againe: _Probatum est._ Now for answer to their tortures
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