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  Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome to After After Midnight People Tuesdays again didn't record,
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  Speaker 1: so I had to do it again here. Okay, any good?
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully you can hear me a pretty poem. Oh. So
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  Speaker 1: we're doing today's episode on a Storm of witch Crafts,
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  Speaker 1: The Sound Trials and the American Experience INSPY The Storm
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  Speaker 1: of witch Craft The Sound Trials and American Experienced by
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  Speaker 1: Emerson W. Baker. Part one is the gathering Storm. An
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  Speaker 1: areator says, winter settles heavily over the rugged coastline of
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  Speaker 1: New England. The year is sixteen ninety two. Small wooden
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  Speaker 1: houses stand clustering along muddy roads. They're chimney releasing thin
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  Speaker 1: trail of smoke into the cold air. Beyond the house,
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  Speaker 1: stretched forest are endless and unknown. This is the world
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  Speaker 1: of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, a Puritan settlement carved out
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  Speaker 1: of wilderness. Life here is hard. Danger is everywhere. Disease
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  Speaker 1: spreads easily, crops can fail without warning, and violent conflict
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  Speaker 1: with native tribes on the front is never far away.
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  Speaker 1: But for the suttlers of this colony, there is another danger.
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  Speaker 1: They're fear even more, an invisible enemy, the devil. The
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  Speaker 1: settlers believe their community is part of a divine mission.
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  Speaker 1: They see themselves as a chosen by God to build
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  Speaker 1: a pure Christian society in the New World, a city
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  Speaker 1: upon a hill. But if God is watching them, they
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  Speaker 1: believe something else is watching too, Satan and Satan they
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  Speaker 1: believe works through human surfiths and witches. Today, the idea
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  Speaker 1: of witches cause illness or misfortune might sound like superstition,
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  Speaker 1: but in the nineteen sixties, believe it. Believe in witchcraft
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  Speaker 1: was widespread throughout Europe and the American colonies. Thousands of
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  Speaker 1: people have already been executed for witchcraft in Europe during
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  Speaker 1: the previous century. The Prayeritans who settled New England carry
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  Speaker 1: those fear with them across the Atlantic, and in one
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  Speaker 1: small farming community that those fears would soon erupt into
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  Speaker 1: one of the most famous events in American history, the
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  Speaker 1: Salem witch Trial. Part two. A Divided Village. The story
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  Speaker 1: begins in a quite forming community known as Salem Village.
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  Speaker 1: At first lance, the village appears peacefully. Families farm their land,
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  Speaker 1: children attend church, neighbors gather for prayers and community meetings.
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  Speaker 1: But beneath the surface, tensions or building hostsess Salem Village
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  Speaker 1: is divided. Some facilities are wealthy landowners with strong influence
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  Speaker 1: in the community. Others are struggling farmers living on the
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  Speaker 1: edge of survival. There are arguments about land boundaries despite
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  Speaker 1: over church leaderships and growing between neighbors. These divisions created
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  Speaker 1: community already filled with suspicious and mistresss. Narrator says, at
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  Speaker 1: the center of the village, elite just life stands the
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  Speaker 1: local minister, Samuel Parris. Parish is strict in demand leader.
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  Speaker 1: Some villages support him strongly. Others just like his leadership
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  Speaker 1: and resent the power he holds over the church. Argument
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  Speaker 1: and about his salary and authority divides the community even further,
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  Speaker 1: and the tense atmosphere it won't take much to ignite fear.
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  Speaker 1: Part three, Strange Events Narrator In January of sixteen ninety two,
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  Speaker 1: strange events begin inside the home of Reverend Paris. His
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  Speaker 1: daughter and niece begin behaving in ways that frightening everyone
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  Speaker 1: around them. They screamed uncontrollably. They threw objects across the road.
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  Speaker 1: They twist their bodies in painful positions. Sometimes they appear
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  Speaker 1: unable to speak, other times they cry out and tear
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  Speaker 1: A girl says she's here she's holding me. The auralor says.
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  Speaker 1: The villagers are alone. Nothing like this has ever happened before.
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  Speaker 1: A doctor is called to examine the girls, but the
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  Speaker 1: doctor cannot find any physical illness. After examining there this
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  Speaker 1: strange behavior, he gives a chilling diagnosis. The doctor says
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  Speaker 1: the children are under an evil hand. Host says, in
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  Speaker 1: other words, they are bewitched. The news spread quickly through
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  Speaker 1: Alum village, and witches are present in the community, then
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  Speaker 1: the entire settlement could be in danger as soon as
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  Speaker 1: the girls begin identifying the witches responsible for their suffering.
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  Speaker 1: Part four, The force Accused. An arrator said that the
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  Speaker 1: girl's name several people as their actors among the forced accused.
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  Speaker 1: In women named Totuba. To Tuba lives in the household
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  Speaker 1: of Reverend Parish. She is an enslaved woman originally from
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  Speaker 1: the Caribbean and the deeply religious of the Puritans. Outsiders
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  Speaker 1: often viewed with suspense, and to Tuba quickly become a target.
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  Speaker 1: The villagers says before an aerator says, Tatuba is brought
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  Speaker 1: before village authorities in question. The integration is intense, the
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  Speaker 1: pressure is overwhelming. Eventually, she confesses to Tuba says, the
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  Speaker 1: devil acain to mean to me and ask me to
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  Speaker 1: stay the serve. Arietter says, but to Tuba confesses contains
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  Speaker 1: something even more terrifying. She claims she has seen other
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  Speaker 1: witches working in the salem, not one, not two, but many.
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  Speaker 1: To Tuba says quietly. There are others, many others. Hosts says, Suddenly,
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  Speaker 1: the villagers believe they are facing something far more than
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  Speaker 1: a single act of witchcraft. They believe they are facing conspiracy,
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  Speaker 1: a network of witches secretly working for the devil. Suddenly
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  Speaker 1: within their own community. Part five, Fearing spreads, An says.
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  Speaker 1: The accusations spread quickly. More villagers are named as witches,
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  Speaker 1: More or rest followers duon the logical jail begins filling
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  Speaker 1: with the accused, men and women, some of the accused
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  Speaker 1: or elderly others. Respecting members of the community, even children's,
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  Speaker 1: are not spared. Fear spread throughout the village like a wildfire,
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  Speaker 1: Host says. Neighbors begin watching each other carefully. Any strange
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  Speaker 1: behavior becomes suspicious. A sick cow, a fail harvested, a
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  Speaker 1: sun and illness. Everything becomes potential evidence of witchcraft. As
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  Speaker 1: once someone is accused, providing innocence become nearly impossible. Marriet
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  Speaker 1: Or says. What begins as a strained behavior instead one
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  Speaker 1: household has now become a full scale panic. With some months,
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  Speaker 1: the crisis will spread far beyond sale and villages. The
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  Speaker 1: column government will create special courts to handle the growing
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  Speaker 1: number of accusations, and soon actuations will begin. Host says,
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  Speaker 1: But the worst is still ahead because the trial themselves
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  Speaker 1: will reveal just how far fear can push a community
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  Speaker 1: and how quickly just this can disappear. Post says. In
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  Speaker 1: the next chapter of the story will follow your lives
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  Speaker 1: of the witch trials themselves, a courtroom drama where spectral
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  Speaker 1: visions become evidence and where their lives will hang in
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  Speaker 1: the balance. All right, people, Uh, I think we're going
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  Speaker 1: to continue this episode because I think it's I'm trying
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  Speaker 1: to get to the Lord a minute more, of course,
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  Speaker 1: So we're going to continue this episode with part two
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  Speaker 1: and Part two to part six. Here we go, Part two.
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  Speaker 1: The courts Assailem. By the spring of sixteen ninety two,
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  Speaker 1: fear has spread far beyond the walls of the household
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  Speaker 1: and Salem village. Dozens of people are now accused of witchcraft, farmers, mothers,
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  Speaker 1: church members, even respect members of the community. The small
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  Speaker 1: villages jail fill quickly. Soon prisoners must be sent to
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  Speaker 1: other towns across the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The crisis has
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  Speaker 1: grown too large to ignore. Host says colony leaders ali
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  Speaker 1: as they must act in whiches truly threaten the colony.
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  Speaker 1: Justice must be delivered, and so the governor craates a
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  Speaker 1: special court to handle the cases. An areator says, the
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  Speaker 1: courtroom is crowded. Villagers fill the wooden wind benches at
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  Speaker 1: the front side of a panel of judges. Before them,
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  Speaker 1: stand and accused. One by one, they are questioned. A
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  Speaker 1: judge says, do you confess to the crime of witchcraft?
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  Speaker 1: Or says most of the accused entered the same way.
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  Speaker 1: Accused woman said no, I'm innocent. An aerator says, but
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  Speaker 1: innocent does not guarantee safety because the court accepts a
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  Speaker 1: controversy form of testimony, something known as spectral evidence. Host says.
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  Speaker 1: Spectral evidence means a witchiness can claim that the spirit
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  Speaker 1: of the accused acted them. In other words, someone might
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  Speaker 1: say they saw a ghost version of a portion harming them,
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  Speaker 1: even if the accused was nowhere nearby to moder an ear.
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  Speaker 1: This may sound unbelievable, but in Salem these visions are
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  Speaker 1: treated as real proof. A girl says she's choking Menriota says.
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  Speaker 1: When the girls scream and collapse in court, the judge
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  Speaker 1: sees it as a confirmation the cues must be guilty,
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  Speaker 1: and the court begins handling down beneath sentences Port three,
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  Speaker 1: It's a force execution a Narriota, June sixteen ninety two.
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  Speaker 1: Their force execution approaches. The condemned woman is bridgehaw Bridget Bishop.
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  Speaker 1: She has long been considered unusual by her neighbors. She
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  Speaker 1: wears bright clothing. She argues with others in the village.
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  Speaker 1: For some, these traits make her suspicious for the court,
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  Speaker 1: they help seal her fate. The narrator says, a wooden
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  Speaker 1: gallow stands on a hill outside town. Villagers gather to watch.
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  Speaker 1: The rope is placed around her neck, which at Brushaw
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  Speaker 1: says calmly, I am not a witch neari Etter says.
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  Speaker 1: Moments later, the trap of the least Bridget Bishop becomes
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  Speaker 1: the forced person of executor door in Salem witch trial.
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  Speaker 1: But she will not be the last. Host says over
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  Speaker 1: the next several months, the execution continues. We were accused.
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  Speaker 1: Witches are brought to the gallo men and women alike.
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  Speaker 1: Among them are church members, farmers, and respected citizens. The
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  Speaker 1: community is tearing itself apart. Four Giles Krey. One of
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  Speaker 1: the most tragic stories of the trial is that child's
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  Speaker 1: grory Kory is elderly former you refuse to enter a
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  Speaker 1: plea during his trial. Under colony law. Without a plea,
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  Speaker 1: that court cannot proceed. But the authorities still want answers
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  Speaker 1: that they choose a brutal method to force him to speak.
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  Speaker 1: Meredith says. Corey is laid on the ground. A wooden
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  Speaker 1: board is placed over his body, then heavy stones are
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  Speaker 1: piled on top. This punishment is known as pressing. Official said,
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  Speaker 1: will you plead? Narrator says Corey refuses. More stones are added,
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  Speaker 1: Official says, will you plead? Narretis says still he refuses.
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  Speaker 1: After two days under the crushing weight, he speaks his
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  Speaker 1: final word, give me more word, Corey says, narrat or
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  Speaker 1: He dies without out ever entering a plea. His death
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  Speaker 1: becomes one of the most haunting moments of the trial.
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  Speaker 1: Part five. Doubt rises as the execution continues, some leaders
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  Speaker 1: begin to question the trial. Ministry grows uneasy about special evidence.
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  Speaker 1: Could innocent people be dying? Host says, even or we
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  Speaker 1: begin raising concerns. One of the key voces origin Causes,
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  Speaker 1: argues that spectacle evidence cannot be trusted, and the devil
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  Speaker 1: can appear in any form, and visitors alone cannot prove guilty. Slowly,
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  Speaker 1: don't spread, narrator says. Eventually the colony of government will
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  Speaker 1: and Philip steps in. He orders a special court to
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  Speaker 1: stop accepting spectral evidence. Then he dissolves the court entirely
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  Speaker 1: without the court draw comes to an end. Part six,
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  Speaker 1: Aftermath and Legacy. By the time the hysterion ends, twenty
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  Speaker 1: people have been executed, more than one hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: have been accused, and many other has been sent months
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  Speaker 1: in prison. Families have been destroyed, Trusts between neighbors have
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  Speaker 1: been shattered, host says. In the years that follow, many
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  Speaker 1: pros in the trial express re gut some jewelies publicly apologizes,
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  Speaker 1: Church leisures and knowledge terrible mistakes were made. Over time,
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  Speaker 1: the colony began to restore the reputation of those who
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  Speaker 1: were only accused, but the memory of Salem never fades,
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  Speaker 1: Narrettor says. Historian Emersons of Baker explains that the events
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  Speaker 1: of sixteen ninety two reveal much about early American society. Fear,
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  Speaker 1: political instability, religit conflicts. All these focus combined to create
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  Speaker 1: a moment of mass history. Host says, today the Salem
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  Speaker 1: witch Trial remains one of the most powerful warnings in
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  Speaker 1: history that reminds us how easily fear can overwhelm reason
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  Speaker 1: and how quickly justice can disappear when suspicious replace evidence.
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  Speaker 1: Nari Etter says, three centuries later, the story of Salem
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  Speaker 1: still echoes, not because of which is because of human fears.
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  Speaker 1: Hosts says, and that may be the most honey lessons
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  Speaker 1: of all. All right, people, That concludes today's episode. But
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  Speaker 1: before we conclude here, I just want to say I
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  Speaker 1: went to Salem with my aunt and her friend and
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  Speaker 1: that was such a good trip. We got to go
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  Speaker 1: where they had which trials and ghost stuff. I'll talk
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  Speaker 1: more about the ghost stuff in the ghost episode, of course,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, they had the history of which trials and
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  Speaker 1: it's just a fun experience. So hopefully this episode made
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  Speaker 1: I will see you in the next episode. And it's
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