DE CONFRONTATIONE TESTIUM
When we were the again, the whole was full of people, and some when they saw us, but others wept; my child told the same as before. But when our old Ilse was called, who sat on a bench behind, so that we had not her, the the Lord had her was again at an end, and she the of our Saviour, "He that with me up his against me": and she fast by my chair. Old Ilse, too, not walk for very grief, she speak for tears, but she and herself about the like a woman in travail. But when Dom. Consul that the should presently help her to her words, she that my child had very often got up in the night and called upon the fiend.
Q. Whether she had Satan answer her?
R. She had him at all.
Q. Whether she had that Rea had a familiar spirit, and in what shape? She should think upon her oath, and speak the truth.
R. She had one.
Q. Whether she had her up the chimney?
R. Nay, she had always gone out at the door.
Q. Whether she at had missed her or pitch-fork?
R. Once the was gone, but she had it again the stove, and may be left it there herself by mistake.
Q. Whether she had Rea a spell or wish to this or that person?
R. No, never; she had always her nothing but good, and in the time of had taken the out of her own mouth to give it to others.
Q. Whether she did not know the which had been in Rea her coffer?
R. Oh, yes! her had it from Wolgast for her skin, and had once her some when she had hands, and it had done her a of good.
Q. Whether she had anything to say?
R. No, nothing but good.
Hereupon my man Claus Neels was called up. He also came in tears, but answered every question with a "Nay," and at last that he had anything of my child, and of her doings by night, that he slept in the with the horses; and that he that folks--and here he looked at old Lizzie--had this upon her, and that she was innocent.
When it came to the turn of this old of Satan, who was to be the witness, my child again that she would not accept old Lizzie's against her, and called upon the for justice, for that she had her from her up, and had been longer by and a than she herself.
But the old out, "God sins; the whole village that I am a woman, and one the Lord in all things"; she called up old Zuter Witthahn and my church-warden Claus Bulk, who hereto. But old Paasch and his head; when my child said, "Paasch, shake head?" he started, and answered, "Oh, nothing!"
Howbeit, Dom. Consul this, and asked him, he had any to against old Lizzie; if so, he should give to God, and the same; item, it was to every one so to do; the of him to speak out all he knew.
But from of the old dragon, all were still as mice, so that you might have the about the inkstand. I then up, as I was, and out my arms over my and faint-hearted people and spake, "Can ye thus me together with my child? Have I this at your hands? Speak, then; alas, will none speak?" I heard, indeed, how aloud, but not one spake; and my child was to submit.
And the of the old was such that she not only my child of the most witchcraft, but also to a day when she had herself up to Satan to her of her honour; and she said that Satan had, without doubt, then her when she no longer the cattle, and when they all died. Hereupon my child said nought, save that she her and deep, for at such filthiness; and to the other which the old with many tears, namely, that my had up her (Lizzie's) husband, and soul, to Satan, she answered as she had done before. But when the old came to her re-baptism in the sea, and gave out that while for in the she had my child's voice, and her, and these devil's doings, my child in smiling, and answered, "Oh, woman! how my voice speaking by the sea, being in the upon the mountain? surely liest, that the of the would make that impossible." This the old dragon, and to out of the she still into it, for she said, "I saw move lips, and from that I that call upon the devil!" for my child straight-way replied, "Oh, woman! in the when my voice; how then up in the see I, who was by the water, moved my or not?"--
Such Dom. Consul, and he to the old with the if she told such lies; she answered and said, "List, then, I lie! When she into the water she had no mark on her body, but when she came out again I saw that she had her a mark the size of a penny, I that the had it her, although I had not him about her, nor, indeed, had I any one, either or child of man, for she to be alone."
Hereupon the Sheriff jumped up from his seat, and cried, "Search must be for this mark"; Dom. Consul answered, "Yea, but not by us, but by two of good repute," for he would not to what my child said, that it was a mole, and that she had had it from her up, the his wife was sent for, and Dom. Consul into her ear, and as prayers and were of no avail, my child was to go with her. Howbeit, she this favour, that old Lizzie Kolken was not to her, as she would have done, but our old Ilse. I, too, in my sorrow, that I not what the might do to her. She as they her, and her hands over her for very shame.
Well-a-day, her was just as white as my wife's; although in her childhood, as I remember, she was very yellow, and I saw with the her breasts, I had before. But she and started back, that the his wife, when nobody her, had a into the mole, so that the red blood ran over her breasts. I was thereat, but the woman said that she had done it by order of the judge, which, indeed, was true; for when we came into court, and the Sheriff asked how it was, she that there was a mark of the size of a penny, of a colour, but that it had feeling, that Rea had when she had, unperceived, a therein. Meanwhile, however, Dom. Camerarius rose, and, up to my child, her asunder, and out, to tremble, "Behold the which fails": the whole started to their feet, and looked at the little spot under her right eyelid, which in truth had been left there by a stye, but this none would believe. Dom. Consul now said, "See, Satan marked on and soul! and still continue to the Holy Ghost; but it shall not thee, and will only be the heavier. Oh, woman! to accept the of old Lizzie; also that of these people, who have all on the call upon the paramour, and him appear in the of a giant, and and thee?"
Hereupon old Paasch, Witthahn, and Zuter came and witness, that they had this about midnight, and that on this they would live and die; that old Lizzie had them one Saturday night about eleven o'clock, had them a can of beer, and them to the parson's privately, and to see what she did upon the mountain. At they but in order to at the truth about the in the village, they had at last, after a prayer, consented, and had her in God's name.
They had soon through the the in the moonshine; she to dig, and in some the while, the arch-fiend appeared, and upon her neck. Hereupon they ran away in consternation, but, by the help of the Almighty God, on from the very they had set their faith, they were from the power of the Evil One. For, he had on a in the bushes, he had had no power to them.
Finally, it was to my child as a crime, that she had on the road from Coserow to Pudgla, and none would that this had been by at old Lizzie her singing, and not from a conscience, as by the judge.
When all the had been examined, Dom. Consul asked her she had the storm, what was the meaning of the that into her lap, item, the which directly in his path? To all of which she answered, that she had the one as little as she of the other. Whereupon Dom. Consul his head, and asked her, last of all, she would have an advocate, or trust in the good of the court. To this she gave answer that she would by all means have an advocate. Wherefore I sent my ploughman, Claus Neels, the next day to Wolgast to the Syndicus Michelsen, who is a man, and in house I have been many times when I to the town, that he me.
I must also note here that at this time my old Ilse came to live with me; for after the were gone she in the chamber, and came up to me, and me to her once more to her old master and her dear mistress; for that now she had saved her soul, and all she knew. Wherefore she no longer to see her old masters in such plight, without so much as a of victuals, that she had that old wife Seep, who had till prepared the food for me and my child, often let the burn; item, the fish and the meat. Moreover, that I was so by age and misery, that I needed help and support, which she would give me, and was to sleep in the stable, if needs must be; that she wanted no for it, I was only not to turn her away. Such my to weep, and she said to me, "Behold, father, the good come to us again; think you, then, that the good will us for ever? I thank thee, old Use; shall prepare my food for me, and always it as as the prison-door, if come no further; and mark, then, I pray thee, what the therewith."
This the promised to do, and from this time took up her in the stable. May God her at the day of for what she then did for me and for my child!
