![]() ![]() Courts allowed “causal relationship” evidence, for example, to prove that the accused possessed or controlled an afflicted girl. ![]() According to Wendel Craker, no court ever convicted an accused of witchcraft on the basis of spectral evidence alone, but other forms of evidence were needed to corroborate the charge of witchcraft. Courts relied on three kinds of evidence: 1) confession, 2) testimony of two eyewitnesses to acts of witchcraft, or 3) spectral evidence (when the afflicted girls were having their fits, they would interact with an unseen assailant – the apparition of the witch tormenting them). ![]() If the colony imprisoned you, you had to pay for your stay. The law did not then use the principle of “innocent until proven guilty” – if you made it to trial, the law presumed guilt. The colony created the Court of Oyer and Terminer especially for the witchcraft trials. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |