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The Salem Witch Trials

We don't know what she said in her own defence. Honestly, what could she have said beyond the words she had muttered at her examination back in april? I am innocent. And we don’t know what the court's response was that day. All we know is that she was moved to the salem jail to await the final verdict. The weiht must have felt like an eternity too, considering what the stakes were. Would she die, or would she be allowed to go free? Of all the documents that still survive from the salem witch trials, the official oyer and terminer records are not among them. Most historians don't consider them lost either.

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