Presently he cryeth out of some poor innocent neighbour that ... she hath bewitched him. For, saith he, such an old woman came lately to my door and desire some relief, and I denied it, and, God forgive me, my heart did rise gainst her ... and presently my child, my wife, myself ... was thus and thus handled in such a strange manner, as I dare say she is a witch, or else how should these things be?

Thomas Ady, A Candle in the Dark, 1656