According to Stearne Elizabeth Finch of ‘Watson in Suffolke’ confessed that twenty years before she had entered into a covenant with the Devil and had since been plagued by imps.
“Also ELIZABETH FINCH of Wattisham in Suffolk , confessed, that about twenty years before she was found with the marks, the Devil appeared to her in the likeness of a smoky coloured Dog, which asked her to deny God and Christ, which she said, upon his promises she did, and let him have blood to seal or confirm the Covenant or agreement; and that soon after that, there came two more, black on the backs and reddish on the bellies, which sucked her two or three times a week, upon those marks that were found on her, and that sometimes she fetched blood in other places for them, and gave it to them; she also had her Imps come visible ; For she confessed in the time she was kept, one which was with her to look to her, saw one of them, and flung it into the fire, which she affirmed was one of her Imps, and that whilst they were busy about that, thinking to burn it, she confessed the other came, and threw her out of the chair, she sat in, which hurt her forehead and wrist, which was done accordingly, and so further confessed”
A confirmation and discovery of witches – John Stearne