not accept of it, but bid her carry it to them again, which she did. I presume this was the time my sister owns she saw the fairies.....
I have seen Ann, in the orchard, dancing among the trees; and she told me she was then dancing with the fairies.
The great noise of the many strange cures Ann did, and also her living without eating our victuals (she being fed, as she said, by these fairies) caused both the neighbouring magistrates and ministers to resort to my fathers house, and talk with her, and strictly examine her, about the matters here related; and she gave them very rational answers to all those questions they then asked her (for by this time she was well recovered out of her sickness and fits, and her natural parts; and understanding much improved); my father, and all his family, affirming the truth of all we saw. The ministers endeavoured to persuade her, they were evil spirits which resorted to her, and that it was the delusion of the devil, and advised her not to go to them, when they called her. Upon these admonitions of the ministers and magistrates, our Ann was not a little troubled. However, that night, my father, with his family, sitting at a great fire in his hall, Ann being also present, she spake to my father, and said, Now they call (meaning
