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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
a witch. giles corey was pressed to death for refusing to make a plea giles corey , a blameless man of eighty, was condemned to the medieval peine forte et dure, his body being crushed beneath a load of rocks and timbers. he refused to plead in court, and when the beams were laid upon him he only cried...
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