But both were, in those ignorant and superstitions times, easily credited as proofs of guilt.⁠—The first class set forth, that Rebecca was heard to mutter to herself in an unknown tongue⁠—that the songs she sung by fits were of a strangely sweet sound, which made the ears of the hearer tingle, and his heart throb⁠—that she spoke at times to herself, and seemed to look upward for a reply⁠—that her garments were of a strange and mystic form, unlike those of women of good repute⁠—that she had rings impressed with cabalistical devices, and that strange characters were broidered on her veil.

All these circumstances, so natural and so trivial, were gravely listened to as proofs, or, at least, as affording strong suspicions that Rebecca had unlawful correspondence with mystical powers.