She was a witch from her very birth.

Her father sold her to Satan before she was born, that he might prosper in houses and lands.

She has the witch's mark--a snake--on her breast, just over her heart.

I know it, because goodwife Bartley, the midwife, told me so three years ago last March.

Midwife Bartley is dead; but have a jury of women examine her, and you will see that it is true." At this, as all thought it, horrible charge, a cold thrill ran through the crowd.