England: A “witch” gets abducted — 1045
”When Henrie the third of that name was Emperour of Rome, in England a certain
southsaying Witch was caried away by the Divel, whyche being drawen after him uppon his horsse with a horrible crye, he caryed away up into the ayre, the cry of whiche old woman was heard for certaine houres almost foure miles in that Countrey.” This constitutes only one of hundreds of similar stories about witches carried away by paranormal means or by non-human beings, usually thought to be demonic.
Source: Helge Ingstad, Westward to Vinland (London: Jonathan Cape, 1969). 83. Case: W033