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In Sorcery in Salem, local author John Hardy Wright examines the
witchcraft delusion that afflicted Salem Village and Salem Town in
the winter of 1691-92. Twenty inhabitants lost their lives at that
time; nineteen were hanged on Gallows Hill, and one elderly man,
Giles Cory, by remaining mute as a personal protest to the
proceedings of the court, was pressed to death under heavy weights.
Once the prosecuting examinations began on March 1, 1692, local
authorities were uncertain what course the following trials would
take. Spectral evidence, in which the shape of a suspected witch
tortured people, was a primary indication of guilt, as was the
"touch test," in which a victim was released from the witch's power
upon the laying on of hands. Not being able to correctly recite the
Lord's Prayer was also damning.
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