Questions were asked of the agencies, and to the interrogation, "Are you a devil ?" a most deafening knock replied.

"We all jumped backwards." Now comes a curious point.

In the Wesley and Tedworth cases, the masters of the houses, like the cure of Cideville (1851), were at odds with local "cunning men".
Mr.Shchapoff's fiend now averred that he was "set on" by the servant of a neighbouring miller, with whom Mr.Shchapoff had a dispute about a mill pond.

This man had previously said, "It will be worse; they will drag you by the hair".

And, indeed, Mrs.Shchapoff was found in tears, because her hair had been pulled.