Notes:
-In exodus, 22:18 "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live."
- 1482 "Malleus Maleficarum"or "The Hammer of the Witches"; guidebook for finding witches.
-Explained that witches have added teats that are used to fed evil souls.
-"Swimming a witch"; seeing if she sank or floated. Water was pure so it would repel witches.
- Encourages torture.
1629- Puritans given New England territory to start their own government. "Going to the end of the known word and starting a community out of nothing was better" than living under English tyranny.
-"Memorable Providences"
-"Spectral Evidence"; specters that were seen by the person making the accusation were admissable as evidence.
-Tituba's confession was a 3 day confession that contained tales about flying on brooms, talking animals, and spectral visits that intended to harm the children.
-The young girls were suddenly in a position of power. For once, the young girls spoke, and the old men listened. They were famous in their time, and it was unprecedented.
-Sarah Good cursed Judge Nicholas Noise as she was lead ot her death, "if you take away my life God will give you blood to drink" 25 years later, as he lay dying, he choked on his own blood.
-George Buroughs was about to be hanged; he recited the Lord's Prayer perfectly, which was supposed to be impossible for a witch to do.
-In 1702, John Hale published a modst inquest into the trials and offers an apology. "We walked in clouds and could not see our way".
- 1957, the guilty verdict on the final 9 "witches" was finally reversed.
-Conviction of being a witch also means that all of your property was forfeited to the common wealth.
-"Innocent until proven guilty" not written until after the Salem Witch trials.
Bohemian ; camp ground where modern people of power go and supposedly reenact satanic rituals
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