Witchcraft in Salem village in 1692 : together with some account of other witchcraft prosecutions in New England and elsewhere (1892)
Nevins, Winfield S · Salem, Mass. : North Shore Pub. Co. · leaf 122
nearest to the prisondoor, and in this situation this should be alter-nately his daily diet till he died, or—as ancient-ly the judgement ran—till he answered.« No other instance of the enforcement of thispenalty is known in New England history.Blackstone says it was adopted in Englandabout the… … MARTHA AND GILES COREY. 107 all concurred to require the abolishment of thecruel punishment, so that standing mute shouldamount only to a confession of guilt.^ There is some uncertainty as to the placewhere the last act in this terrible tragedy tookplace. The tradition has always been that itwas…
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