Though as for Mistress Dulcibel, I suppose she would prefer her familiar, the black mare, to any other animal." "That was very marvelous.

Abigail Williams says that she is certain that the mare, after jumping the gate, never came down to earth again, but flew straight on up into the thundercloud." "And it thundered when the black beast entered the cloud, did it not ?" said the magistrate in a sobered tone.

He evidently saw nothing unreasonable in the story.
"Yes--it thundered--but not the common kind of thunder--it was enough to make your flesh creep.

The minister says he is only too thankful that the Satanic beast did throw him off.

He might have been carried off to hell with her." "Yes, it was a very foolish thing to get on the back of a witch's familiar," said the magistrate.