#28
Or, if it did, the drowsy slumberers mistook the cry either for something frightful in a dream, or for the noises of witches; whose voices, at that period, were often heard to pass over the settlements or lonely cottages, as they rode with Satan through the air.
When he speaks of the witches he could very well mean his flaws, which are Hester and Pearl. I call them his flaws because Hester is his abandoned wife and Pearl is the evidence. Hawthorn writes that the witches pass over not only settlements but lonely cottages. I believe that this is a reference to Hester's cottage which also implies witch like activity.
Saying the townspeople are awoken by the noise of witches voices immediately makes me think of Pearl and her obnoxious voice. The last part of the sentence I think is definitely referring to Chillingsworth since he is is also with Hester and Pearl at the death of Governor Winthrop.
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