As I was saying, you must have seen mysterious proceedings both at Malkin Tower and your own house.

A black gentleman with a club foot must visit you occasionally, and your mother must, now and then--say once a week--take a fancy to riding on a broomstick.

Are you quite sure you have never ridden on one yourself, Jennet, and got whisked up the chimney without being aware of it?
It's the common witch conveyance, and said to be very expeditious and agreeable--but I can't vouch for it myself--ha! ha! Possibly--though you are rather young--but possibly, I say, you may have attended a witch's Sabbath, and seen a huge He-Goat, with four horns on his head, and a large tail, seated in the midst of a large circle of devoted admirers.
If you have seen this, and can recollect the names and faces of the assembly, it would be highly important." "When ey see it, ey shanna forget it," replied Jennet.

"Boh ey am nah quite so familiar wi' Owd Scrat os yo seem to suppose." "Has it ever occurred to you that Alizon might be addicted to these practices ?" pursued Potts, "and that she obtained her extraordinary and otherwise unaccountable beauty by some magical process--some charm--some diabolical unguent prepared, as the Lord Keeper of the Privy Seals, the singularly learned Lord Bacon, declares, from fat of unbaptised babes, compounded with henbane, hemlock, mandrake, moonshade, and other terrible ingredients.

She could not be so beautiful without some such aid." "That shows how little yo knoaw about it," replied Jennet.