The Spreyton spectre on Easter Eve

On Easter Eve a young servant named Francis Fry, haunted for months at a house in Spreyton, was said to have been seized by a woman spectre by the skirts of his doublet and carried into the air. Half an hour later he was heard whistling and singing in a quagmire, and swore the demon had carried him so high that his master’s house looked no bigger than a haycock. One shoe was found on each side of the house, and next morning his periwig was seen hanging from the top of a tall tree. The account came to Aubrey in a letter from a Devon clergyman who had passed the door that very day.