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crops, disease of cattle, were charged to them; children complained of being pricked with thorns and pins, and if hysterical girls spoke the name of any feeble old woman, while in flighty talk, they virtually sentenced her to die. the word of a child of eleven years sufficed to hang, burn, or drown
until was said to have served as a gallows for witches and quakers. the accuser of one day was the prisoner of the next, and not even the clergy was safe. a few escapes were made, like that of a blue-eyed maid of wenham, whose lover aided her to break the wooden jail and carried her safely beyond the...
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