ABSTRACT
First, the said Collette immediately after the said sentence was pronounced, and before leaving the court, freely admitted that she was a witch; and at the same time, not wishing to specify the crimes which she had committed, she was taken, along with the others, to the torture chamber, and the said question being applied to her, she confessed that she was quite young when the Devil, in the form of a cat, appeared to her, in the parish of Torteval, as she was returning from her cattle, it being still daylight, and that he took occasion to lead her astray by inciting her to avenge herself on one of her neighbours, with whom she was then at enmity, on account of some damage
sometimes in the form of a dog, inducing her to take vengeance upon those who had angered her, persuading her to cause the death of persons and cattle.
