French discovered that accused witch Susan Martin allegedly told Robert Downer that "a she-devil was coming for him soon." That night, Downer claimed that "as he lay in bed, came in through the window, the image of a cat, which flew at him, seized his throat tightly, lay on him for a time considerable and almost killed him. » Bridget Bishop has also been accused of witchcraft in testimonies that appear to describe experiences of sleep paralysis. Richard Coleman claimed that Bishop had “so oppressed him that he could not move or wake anyone, and that he was the next night attacked again in the same way” (French, 2013). Sleep paralysis nightmares have also been implicated in the recent controversy over false memories of trauma. The most striking examples involve reported memories of UFO abductions (Powell,