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THE GODIn An1erica the san1e evidence is found. At. Hartford, r662,'Robert :Sterne testifieth as followeth : I saw this womangoodwi fc Seager in ye woods with three more women andwith thetn I saw two black creatures like two Indians buttaller'; and Hugh Crosia 'sayd ye deuell opned ye dore ofeben booths hous made it fly open and ye gate fly open beingasked how he could tell he sayd ye deuell apeered to hin1 likea boye and told him hee ded n1ake them fly open and then yeboye went out of his sight. 11 Elizabeth !(nap at• Groton, I67I'' was with another n1aid yt boarded in yc house, where bothof thetn saw ye appearance of a n1ans head and shoulders, wtba great white neckcloath, looking in at ye window, which sheehath since confessed, was ye Devill coming to her.-One dayas shee was alone in a lower roome she looked out of yewindow, and saw ye devill in ye habit of an old man, comingover a great meadow.' 2 At Saletn, 1692, f\1ary Osgood sawhim as a black tnan who presented a book ; and l\1ary Laceydescribed hin1 as a black man in a high-crowned hat. 3The evidence suggests that an important part of the Devil'scostume \vas the head-covering, which he appears to haveworn both in and out of doors. Though the fact is not ofspecial interest in itself, it may throw light on one of thepossible origins of the cult.In 1576 Bessie Dunlop met Thotn Reid, who was clearlythe DcYil ; he was 'ane honest wele elderlie man, gray bairdit,and had ane gray co itt with Lumbart slevis of the auld fassoun;ane pair of gray brekis and quhyte schankis, gartanit abouethe kne ; ane blak bonet on his heid, eloise behind and planebefoir, \vith silkin laissis drawin throw the 1ippis thairof.' 4At North Berwick in 1590, 'the deuell, cled in a blak gownwith a blak hat vpon his head, preach it vnto a gret no1nber ofthem.' 5 Another description of the same event shows that'the Devil start up in the pulpit, like a mickle black tnan cladin a black tatie go\vn ; and an eyil-favoured scull-bonnet on hishead '.r. At Aberdeen in I 597 Ellen Gray described the1Taylor, pp. 81, I 18.2Green, pp. 9, 14.s Howell, vi, 66o, 664; J. Hutchinson, ii, pp. 31, 37·~ Pitcairn, i, pt. ii, p. 51.6M clville, p. 395·6Pitcairn, i, pt. ii, p. 246. Spelling modernized.