Elizabeth Deekes – whose mother had also been executed as a witch – confessed that she had been instructed to renounce God and had made a pact with the Devil.
“First, ignorant people whose eyes are blinded by Satan and are led captive by him, as is said in another place.
This appears in those Witches commonly detected amongst us, silly ignorant persons many of them. ELIZABETH DEEKES of Rattlesden in Suffolk, a silly ignorant woman being found with the marks, confessed that she was guilty, and had two crop eared Imps, as she said, which had sucked two or three times upon those marks found upon her, which Imps (she said) came like mice; one white, which she called Birds, being the least, the other grey, which she called Teates, which Imp asked her to deny God and Christ, and told her if she would she should never want, but she said she then refused: Whereupon (she said) her mother asked her to give her soul from God to the devil, which (she said) she likewise refused: but as she was going to bed, either upon a pair of stairs or ladder, her mother pulled her back in much danger of her life, and confessed many other things then more at large. But for her ignorance she was saved at first, when her mother suffered, yet afterward, notwithstanding this, and her refusing those temptations, she confessed, she did make a League and Covenant with the devil, and sealed it with her blood, and employed those Imps, to the much prejudice of her Neighbours and Townsmen, as she confessed before the Justice of Peace”
A confirmation and discovery of witches – John Stearne