She was not old enough to understand what it was all about, and that even her life was in danger from these demoniacs.

They absolutely pretended to show the marks of her little teeth in their arms.

Then, after going through the usual convulsions, they shrieked out that she was running pins into them; and the pins were found on examination sticking into their bodies.
The little girl was, as I have said, at first inclined to laugh at all the curious proceedings, and the spasms and contortions of the witnesses, but at last, seeing everyone so solemn and looking so wickedly at her, she began to cry; until Joseph Putnam went up to her and gave her some sweet cake to eat, which he had provided for his own luncheon and then, looking into his kind face, she began to smile again.
The Magistrates frowned upon Master Putnam, as he did this, but he paid no attention to their frowns.

And when the little girl was ordered back to jail as a prisoner to await her trial, he bent down and kissed her before she was led away by the constable.
This was the end of the proceedings for that day and the crowd began to disperse.
"This is a pretty day's work you have made of it, sister-in-law," said Joseph Putnam, striding up to his brother's wife.

"You say that you are tormented by many devils, and I believe it.