The Truth of the Salem Witch Trials

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While it’s tempting to deflect all the accusers as having used witchcraft as an excuse to settle grudges, there is no moment in the Salem Witch Trials in which the victims questioned the existence of witchcraft. Take the case of Mary Easty, for instance, who noticeably rocked the confidence of the persecuting magistrates with her nobel defence. Despite being condemned as a witch and to be hanged on September 22nd, 1692, she focused on the paper beams that were holding up the court’s judicial procedures. Have the accusers recount their stories separately and compare them, she had urged. She pleaded for them to check again the accounts of 'some of these confessing witches’, arguing they had lied to save their own lives when pressured to identify more witches. These requests, if they were heard were not listened to, and she was hanged ‘drawing tears from the eyes of almost all present’.

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