A compulsive and chilling account of actual poltergeist phenomena thought to have been effected by the agency of witchcraft against a small family disturbed by dark manifestations, scratchings, wounds, violent transportations, and malice of a distinctly supernatural kind. The almost diary-like and matter of fact document begins in December 1761 with the manifestation of some unseen entity scraping at the children’s window, a sinister force that soon made its own way into the house. What follows for the ensuing months shows the appalling physical and mental effects of these visitations upon the family, the unquiet minds of the observers and the witch-hunt mentality slowly taking hold. Stranger than all this is the account of communications with the entity, a creature that may have appeared a century earlier in the same town. Bovets ‘Pandaemonium, or the Devils Cloister’ (1684) records similar disturbances to those in this account. On more than one occasion the entity appeared upon summons, accompanied by loud knocking noises, manifestations of orbs of light, and answered questions at first in its own demonic scratchings and scrapings, then in more subtle but not less unsettling ways: by voice in ancient languages, then by answering mentally via direct thought transference.