AmyJo wrote:I believe they were all women except for the one who had rocks stacked on him. He was 71 years old. My God, what torture for those poor people. The real witches were the false accusers!
Actually, five of the hanged were also men. There were another five or so that died in prison (records are not exactly clear).
Much more civilized was trial by drowning, which happened if they were found to be heavier than the Complete Works of Daniel C. Peterson.
Just to set your mind at ease, no penguins were executed at Salem. Or Danvers.
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951