... was true. But more often than not if people thought you were a witch you were more or less already dead because they used to tie the suspect in the middle of a rope and then pull them into the middle of a river or pond and if they untied themselves and flew away they were a witch and they"d kill them, and if they didn't they weren't they"d stay in the middle ... from nowhere you've got to introduce them to the play in some way or another and Shakespeare did by having a relatively none important short first scene to do that, it also means that they are there ready to be written into the ...

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