ANST - Witch trials...
I. Marc Carlson
LIB_IMC at centum.utulsa.edu
Fri Jan 23 19:13:41 PST 1998
<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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