Matthew Hopkins saw demons. His very first affidavit against Elizabeth Clarke attests that she summoned her “imps,” which then appeared one after another as spectral figures of two dogs, a polecat, and a tiny black incubus.
Nor was that the end of the strange sightings he reported. Walking home after this interview, Hopkins wrote that his own dog “suddenly gave a jumpe, and ran as shee had been in a full course after an Hare;”
And that when this Informant made haste to see what his Greyhound so eagerly pursued, He espied a white thing about the bignesse of a [kitten] danced about the said Greyhound and by all likelihood bit off a piece of the flesh of the shoulder of the Greyhound, for the Greyhound came shrieking and crying to this Informant with a piece of fleshe torn from her shoulder.
Hopkins seems to have encountered many cat-demo…
