The Witch Trials of Elizabeth Clark, 1645

Some of this is often attributed to the nature of the questioning. If watchers kept a suspected witch awake for days at a time, she was likely to be delirious by the end of it. Many of the techniques used to test witches are defined as abuse or torture today. People sincerely believed that this type of witchcraft and these imps and familiars, they believed all that was real. In court documents, the watchers and the investigators who hadn't been through any of these ordeals themselves also described personally seeing these demonic family members in various shapes and forms.