ANST - Witch trials...

[I. Marc Carlson]

  <Paul Mitchell <pmitchel at flash.net>>
  >And for anyone who really is where Wolf pretends to be, "pressed to
  >death"
  >means they lie her down on a platform of stone or wood, put a board on
  >top of her, and start putting rocks on the board.  And keep it up until
  >she dies.
  
  The most notable example being Giles Corey in 1692.  He was pressed to
  death not because he refused to confess, but because he refused to make 
  any sort of plea at all (that was the crime for which pressing was the
  punishment, not witchcraft).
  
  Diarmuit Ui Dhuinn
  LIB_IMC at Centum.Utulsa.Edu
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