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I don't know if you are still looking for info but I was researching an ancestor -- John Porter of Wenham, MA and came across this passage:
In 1692, during the witchcraft delusion, he and his wife Lydia were witnesses at court, and testified against one Goody Bibber, who accused Sarah Wildes of bewitching her, "and that said Bibber was an unruly, turbulent woman, would have strange fits when crost, was double tongued, very idle in her calling, mischief making, very much given to speaking bad words against her husband, obscene in her language, and could fall into fits when she pleased, etc."
This included in the book "A Genealogy of the Descendants of Richard Porter, Who Settled at Weymouth, Mass., 1635, and Allied Families: Also Some Account of the Descendants of John Porter, Who Settled at Hingham, Mass., 1635, and Salem (Danvers) Mass.,1644 -- page 236.
I read the passage and had to google both Sarah Wildes - she was executed -- and Goody Bibber to find the outcome.
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