What they say in New England; a book of signs, sayings, and superstitions (1896)
Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940 · Boston : Lee and Shepard · leaf 251
in apparent full possession. Sometimes a watch was set, and thisserved to fasten suspicion on GrannyBates and an old cat owned in the fam-ily. When some one went to get mealto sift, they found this old cat in the bin.Then they noticed that the old cat hadbegun to look very strangely, and there 244… … seen to go ,7 i (through //f:/ a closed,Ml oarret ,,,iAI/!/;,jimiL , windoM, glass andall, without break-ing a pane. Peoplewho saw it said thatthis was no otherthan Granny Batesin the form of ablack cat. But itwas never settledwho the witch really\ was, and some hadsuspicions of a ser-vant-girl who…
Folklore -- New England · Omens · Superstition
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