... trial one of the girls broke out into hysteria and Corey was put in jail. The next to go was an up-standing citizen, Rebecca Nurse. She was accused of witchcraft and placed on trial. The judges declared Nurse innocent, but the outburst from the crowd, after the verdict ... Governor Phipps appointed William Stoughton as Chief Justice of the courts. Stoughton and the other men came up with the idea of the "touching test."" This occurred when the accused witches would touch the afflicted and if a "witch mark- would appear the accused was hanged. The accused was ... women will die here. Fo...

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• Grade Level: High School

... prayer services meant to reveal the identity of witches that were afflicting the girls. Magistrates John Hathorne and Jonathan Corwin examined several girls and made accusations against numbers of people. Rebecca Nurse, Susannah Martin, Sarah Good, Sarah Wildes, and Elizabeth Howe were tried, condemned and then executed, for witchcraft. Most of these girls were under the age of eighteen and few ... evidence was given by one of the following ways: 1) self-incriminating testimony, 2) inability to say the lords prayer without error, 3) discovery of the devil's mark, (a small red circle) 4)...

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• Grade Level: High School