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Narrator: Imagine a village consumed by a witch hunt.

The things that the people of salem endured in 1692

Were totally horrific.

If you live in a society that believes in witchcraft,

That believes that witchcraft and bewitchment are real,

Then it is.

-Kill her! -Kill the witch!

Narrator: Imagine the terror of knowing the sentence

For witchcraft is death.

Woman: I'm not a witch. I am innocent.

Howe: A whole community who are educated and thoughtful

Believe themselves to be doing the absolute right thing.

We offer this witch for your judgment,

Brock: People who were not fundamentally bad

Thought that this was their duty.

I'm not a witch. No, no.

That makes it all the more horrific.

Man: To keep us, your humble servants,

The devil from our midst.

Narrator: The witch hunt is on.

It's a brutally cold night in January.

Abigail williams and betty parris

Are trying to find imaginative ways

To pass the time.

As it gets later, they decide to try to predict their futures

With something called a venus glass.

They were trying to see who would be their future husbands

Who they might marry someday.

Narrator: Though they know that any kind of fortune-telling

Is off-limits, the two young girls can't resist consulting

The cup to see if the shape of the egg white

Will reveal important clues about their future husbands.

Look, can you see?

Supposedly the egg white coalesced in the bottom

Of the glass in the shape of a coffin.

Does that mean the man you marry will die?

Narrator: The girls are horrified by the disturbing results.

In an environment where they had been taught that

Dabbling in any kind of magic, any kind of occult activities,

No matter how seemingly harmless

Were really a way of allowing the devil

To enter into your soul.

They would've been terrified by this.

Aronson: You've done something forbidden,

And then something weird happened.

And so you really feel like, "what have I dabbled in,

What door have I opened?"

Narrator: They have heard stories of demonic possession,

But now abigail and betty are terrified.

Have they just sold their souls to the devil?

So here we are in salem, massachusetts, in 1692.

Salem in 1692 is actually two different places.

Salem town, which is on the water, which is a port city,

And salem village, which is modern day danvers.

Salem village was more remote it was more outlying.

They are surrounded on all sides by wilderness.

A wilderness that is already peopled.

And peopled by people who the puritans would have considered

To be devilish.

Hill: It was practically a war zone.

There'd be places not that far off

That had been attacked. By native americans.

Coy: The puritans in salem village thought of native americans

As agents of the devil.

Howe: So there is a sort of existential dread

Attached to living on a frontier

That is at the edge of that which is unknown.

Many people came there with the idea

Of creating a perfect community.

Coy: They saw themselves as a new jerusalem,

As bringing the word of god into the wilderness, into a land

That they thought was really the dominion of the devil.

The puritans were hoping to build an ideal utopian

Community, a city on the hill.

This was to be a new eden.

What we find in the bible as literal truth for the puritans

Are a belief in witches

And also a belief in the ending of days -- the apocalypse.

The second coming.

Little: The puritans are convinced of their religious righteousness,

All who disagree with them are damned.

It has a lot of connections to a cult-like community.

Howe: Sunday was the day of rest after a very hard working week

And the rest consisted of eight hours of going to a meeting.

I must warn you all,

The devil's hostility towards this church...

Hill: They would divide it up, men on one side,

Women on the other, and the children and servants

And slaves slightly set back.

...Cleansed and sworn into god's kingdom.

Hill: It would be very, very cold, it was completely unheated,

But they were expected to behave themselves in church.

They were expected to listen to the sermon.

Narrator: To ensure people paid attention,

A member of the congregation known as the tithing man

Would poke people with a stick.

And presiding over the service was salem village's minister,

Samuel parris.

Who the minister was was of paramount importance.

They'd had a series of ministers who hadn't gone over

Particularly well with the congregation at salem village

And in 1689, the newest minister,

Samuel parris, arrived.

And it is imperative that we keep our town.

Howe: He was not initially called to the church.

He had a sort of mixed and varied career,

Including running a plantation into the ground in barbados,

Coming to boston and making a hash of being a businessman,

And then coming to salem village where he immediately

Made himself disagreeable with the villagers.

And I remind you all only through grace

Can one enter god's kingdom.

Brock: There was a faction in salem village,

Particularly the putnams, who really liked samuel parris,

Who thought he was the right man for the job.

Other important people in salem village

Didn't see him as a uniter of the town,

But rather someone who would divide.

Parris: There's sinfulness everywhere in this village.

Narrator: Samuel parris lives in the church's

Two-bedroom residence, which he shares with his wife,

Elizabeth, and the two girls

Who had dabbled in fortune-telling,

His niece and maid, abigail williams,

And his daughter, betty.

Howe: After eight hours of listening to sermonizing,

Then it was time to go home

And read the bible together as a family.

So it was a really full day.

Christ sits at god's right hand and intercedes

For sinful humanity.

Brock: Samuel parris's household would not have been

One of a lot of light and a lot of joy.

They would have spent hours poring over scripture

By the fireside.

You can imagine these girls listening to samuel parris

Practice his hellfire and brimstone sermons.

There was a lot of emphasis on the idea

That women in particular

Were susceptible to the wiles of satan.

For the lord, your god, here it is...For you.

Betty?

What's the matter?

See to her, will you?

Narrator: Parris asks his enslaved servant,

Tituba, to help betty.

Aronson: Betty began exhibiting strange symptoms.

Hill: The first symptoms were of crawling under chairs

And talking in a disconnected way,

And nobody being able to figure out why.

I met with the village committee today

On not receiving my firewood.

Little: I think betty parris and abigail williams

Were undoubtedly aware of the social tensions

That were swirling in salem at the time.

One can imagine the conversations

Around the dinner table

That may have fed into their fears

That were manifested in their own affliction.

Narrator: What terrible sickness has been unleashed

In the minister's household?

Once samuel parris's daughter, betty,

Began to exhibit the symptoms of these violent fits,

It soon spread to another member of the parris household,

Abigail williams.

Betty. Betty.

I think the attention that the girls were able

To receive and channel was probably intoxicating.

Narrator: The madness is about to engulf salem

In a wave of paranoia and terror.

Narrator: Two girls in salem village,

Abigail williams and betty parris,

Have started to suffer violent unexplained fits

After secretly experimenting with fortune-telling.

The town's minister, samuel parris, is desperate

To understand the cause of their illness.

Is that sore?

Coy: Parris called upon william griggs,

The local physician, to come and try to diagnose

Whether there was an underlying physical cause.

Does that hurt at all?

Unsurprisingly, the doctor can't find anything

Physically wrong with betty or with abigail.

Narrator: Instead of diagnosing a physical cause, the doctor

Suggests something far more disturbing.

I'm sorry, but I think she's under the influence

Of an evil hand.

Meaning that he suspected bewitchment.

Samuel parris's initial reaction was to be patient

In the face of god's punishments

And in the face of adversity, and rather to pray for guidance.

Please deliver us from the evil forces that have...

The belief in witchcraft was sanctioned by

The greatest minds of the age,

Educated scholars from cambridge and harvard

And the greatest universities taught that witchcraft was real.

Howe: When his daughter and servant abigail fell ill, samuel parris

Would have rightly looked at himself

And wondered if this was some kind of mark

Against the state of his own soul.

The girls' conditions are getting worse,

The fits more extreme.

Narrator: Around this time, samuel parris is visited

By a local landowner, thomas putnam,

Who brings with him his daughter, ann jr.,

And servant, mercy lewis.

Parris reveals the terrifying nightmare

That his family is enduring.

Samuel parris and his wife tried all the herbal remedies

They knew about, but nothing made any difference.

The community knows it's in your house.

Coy: Nothing happened by coincidence.

If your child was having fits or was ill,

You sought the reason for that, and that reason was rooted

In relationships within the community.

Who is it that wishes me and my family harm

And is the sort of person who would turn to the devil?

Excuse me.

In the midst of all of this uncertainty and anxieties,

A local beggar woman, sarah good, shows up begging for food.

I'm very, very sorry to have knocked on your door,

But I find myself in a very difficult time

With no food or clothing for my daughter.

You haven't been seen in church in many months.

She says she hasn't gone for want of clothes.

Howe: What that means is not "I didn't have something cute to wear."

It means that she's in rags.

I cannot pay for it.

So she is supported by depending on

The kindness of her neighbors,

Which, of course, in this time period,

Most people don't have much extra to go around.

Okay, dorothy, let's go.

Coy: She went away muttering under her breath.

For the people of salem who believed in witchcraft,

They would have seen this as potentially a curse

That she was muttering.

Abby!

In the aftermath of her visit,

The violent fits they're going through intensify and worsen.

My head, it hurts!

Initially, samuel parris tried to keep the incidents

That were going on in his home quiet.

But rumors eventually spread

Through the tight-knit community.

Brock: Salem village had about 600 inhabitants.

Close quarters.

Everyone is seeing each other at the tavern,

At the church meeting house, in the shops, in the streets.

So when abigail and betty start to manifest their symptoms

Of affliction, the word travels very, very quickly.

In my opinion, we have to find out who's hurting the children.

Coy: Mary sibley, in an attempt to help, approached tituba,

The enslaved woman that parris had brought from barbados

When he came to salem village.

Narrator: Mary sibley suggests using a type of folk magic

She believes will protect the children from witchcraft.

Coy: Despite the fact that she was a devout woman

And a puritan,

She was also someone

Who dabbled in these kind of occult activities.

This was quite common.

People in England often practiced these kind of

Folk magic, things like forms of divination,

Healing spells and charms,

And all of these kind of folk beliefs

Came to the new world with these colonists

And rooted themselves in these puritan communities.

Callow: There's a very fine line between what is folk magic

And harmful magic, the kind of harmful magic

That comes directly from the devil.

This is at the crux of the problem

Of the young women in salem.

Narrator: Folk magic practices were a common way

To try and protect yourself from the evils of witchcraft.

But there was always a question

As to what would be considered acceptable

And what would be seen as demonic.

Because of this, tituba waits

Until the parrises are out of sight

Before attempting the remedy recommended by mary sibley,

A form of counter magic known as a witch cake.

What are you doing?

I'm making a very special cake

That's gonna make the both of you feel better.

A witch cake was a traditional english remedy for witchcraft.

Howe: To make a witch cake you take some rye meal,

You collect urine from the afflicted girls,

Mix it together into like a paste,

Bake it into a biscuit, and then feed the biscuit to the dog.

Once we bake this,

It will tell us everything that we need to know.

There are two ways that they thought

That this might free the girls from bewitchment,

One thought was that perhaps it would cause the bewitchment

To travel out of the bodies of the girls

And into the body of the dog.

Another way it might work was it was believed

That the act of bewitching someone

Created a kind of correspondence relationship

Between the witcher and the witchee.

So the munching up of the cake by the dog would cause

The witch's body to feel munched up

And she would then release the children.

Let's bake this.

Parris: What have you done?!

You brought this into my home!

Hill: When parris found out about it,

He went incandescent.

He is incensed.

Who else knows about this?! Who?!

He even intimates that this act was skating right up

To the line of the crime of witchcraft.

You know what you've done?

You brought the devil upon my home.

He called this going to the devil

For help against the devil.

Accounts from the time say that he even savagely beat tituba.

Narrator: Tituba's attempt to help the girls

Will have severe and tragic consequences.

When the girls first started to perform their afflictions,

They didn't name anyone.

Narrator: That will suddenly change when the girls begin to

Have visions of the dark forces attacking them.

The girls begin to see specters.

Narrator: These specters are ghostly versions of the witch,

Who can attack their victim from afar.

betty.

Parris kept asking, "who is it that afflicts you?

Who hurt you?"

Ti-tituba. Tituba hurt us.

They named tituba, the woman

Who had been part of their lives really since they can remember.

Narrator: Why have the girls turned on tituba,

And what will happen to the devoted servant now?

Narrator: Two girls in salem village

Are believed to be under attack from witchcraft.

Now, they have named their enslaved servant,

Tituba, as the cause.

Brock: Samuel parris calls to his household

A number of pre-eminent thinkers in salem village

And also some from the surrounding areas.

Of course, I am not only concerned

For the girls' welfare but for my own.

Narrator: Among the experts that parris calls in

Are magistrate john hathorne,

Fellow minister nicholas noyes, and thomas putnam.

I could quickly find myself

Out of the parsonage if it was known

That satan has moved in.

Samuel's concerns are valid as I share them myself.

Narrator: Parris still clings to the hope

That there might be some natural cause for the girls' condition.

What remedies have been tried?

For two months, we've tried one home remedy after another.

Brock: People often assume that the puritans automatically

Jumped to the devil

Being behind everything, but that's not the case.

They actually were interested in seeing if there were natural

Causes behind the affliction symptoms of the young girls.

But the men who came and observed abigail and betty

Pretty quickly came to the conclusion

That they were being bewitched.

Do we know what might have given rise to their condition?

Narrator: When parris reveals that the girls have named tituba

As the source of their ailments,

The men decide to question her.

Howe: Tituba's ethnicity almost certainly was carib indian.

She looked different from the english colonists

That she was forced to live among.

And even stranger...

Although she was a family intimate,

The fact of her difference was something

That was never forgotten.

They seemed to know tituba's whereabouts

And what she does even when she is nowhere in their sight.

Coy: As an enslaved woman,

Tituba is in an extremely precarious position.

Her response seems to be to try to placate the people

Who are asking her questions.

Your master tells us that you have been practicing magic.

Tituba claims that her mistress on barbados

Had actually been a witch

And had actually taught her the test.

She taught you what?

Hill: What comes out very much about tituba

Is that she was always trying to please.

Narrator: Tituba's attempt to cooperate

Only leads to more trouble.

What begins as folk magic with totally benevolent purposes

Can very quickly become seen as witchcraft.

My advice is patience, regular fasting, and prayer.

Narrator: Rather than follow this advice,

Parris decides to take matters into his own hands.

Why are you doing this? Tell me.

Convinced that all of the family's problems can be solved

If tituba admits to being a witch.

Parris tries to beat the confession from her.

But tituba stands firm.

Tell me!

Then without warning, the terror begins to spread

Throughout salem village.

Several other young girls

Start to show signs of attack by witchcraft.

Ann, what's wrong?

First ann putnam jr., the daughter of thomas putnam.

Also in the putnam household is 19-year-old mercy lewis.

Mercy lewis was a survivor from the maine frontier.

She had been orphaned at a young age

And she'd seen a lot of traumatic events,

And these kind of fears and anxieties and traumas

Could have played a role in the fits that she was experiencing.

Narrator: Less than a mile away, mary walcott

Also begins to writhe, choke, and babble.

Brock: There is particularly among these young girls in salem

A real susceptibility to these ideas.

And so this spreads like wildfire.

When they hear that these things have happened to the two girls

In the house of the minister, then why would they not think

That witches could come and afflict them?

It's not mutually exclusive that these girls

Could both believe deeply that they had been bewitched

And that they reveled in the newfound power

That this gave them.

Narrator: Meanwhile, the girls in the parsonage

Continue to be attacked by tituba's specter.

They were just contorted in extraordinary postures

That looked to say they must be incredibly painful.

-leave them alone.

Narrator: Parris asks abigail if there is anyone else

She can see besides tituba.

Two.

Two women. Who is it?

She furnishes two names which are really pivotal.

Sarah good. Who else?

Sarah osborne.

Both of these women are straight

Out of central casting for witchcraft.

Narrator: The two women named by the girls

Fit the stereotypical image of a witch.

Sarah good has been accused of being a witch before,

She has an intensely quarrelsome reputation.

Sarah osborne, as well, is known to have a slippery tongue.

Narrator: Now that the girls have named their tormentors,

Four village leaders led by thomas putnam

Decide to take action.

Coy: Thomas putnam along with several of his associates

Lodged formal complaints against tituba,

Sarah good, and sarah osborne.

Narrator: The women will all be arrested, setting in motion

A wave of panic that will shake salem to its core.

Ann! Narrator: The terrifying afflictions

That began in the parris's parsonage

Have spread to others in salem village.

When three women are named

As the cause, they are immediately arrested.

Salem village is in uproar.

Everyone is desperate to tituba, sarah good, and sarah osborne

Paraded through town in shackles as they are led to their fate.

Brock: An examination had to take place

To see whether or not these initially accused witches

Had enough evidence against them to warrant a grand jury trial.

Narrator: Witchcraft is a recognized crime

And the penalty is death by hanging.

Howe: In a typical witch trial any sort of examination

Would have been a small and private affair.

Salem already is different in that regard.

Word has been spreading for weeks

About the mysterious afflictions of the little girls.

People have heard rumors about this.

Rumors travel quickly then as they do now..

So people came from pretty far away.

People come from as far as boston

To see the examinations,

They take on a circus-like atmosphere.

This helps really feed the sense of anxiety

And chaos within the village at that time,

But it also feeds the rumor mill.

Brock: I think that's important to understand the public spectacle

Because it helps us to understand

Why the community of otherwise intensely intelligent,

Intensely devoted, caring, good people came to believe something

That we now regard as so fantastical and beyond belief.

Narrator: The plan is to hold the examinations

In the salem village tavern.

It was quite a to-do getting them there.

Not so much tituba, I think she went quietly.

But sarah good kept hitting out at people.

She was a very aggressive personality.

Sarah osborne, I think, just wasn't very well.

Narrator: But when they arrive at the tavern, it becomes clear

That there are far too many people

To fit everyone inside.

To the meeting house.

Coy: So they move to the largest building they have,

The meeting house where the puritans

Would have held their worship services.

Brock: The two people presiding over these early examinations

Are john corwin and john hathorne,

And they are not lawyers.

They are merchants with an interest in the law

Bring forward sarah good, please.

The room is jam-packed, filled to capacity.

You have the frightened suspects.

You have scores of their neighbors and relations

Along with the afflicted girls.

The afflicted girls were present

And this is kind of crucial

Because the attention that's being brought

Changes the way the afflicted girls behave.

Are we ready? Brock: Sarah good

Has been accused of being a witch before,

She has an intensely quarrelsome reputation.

She's not a well-respected member of the community.

Coy: Hathorne, not an experienced jurist,

Seeks to trap these suspects through leading questions.

Sarah good.

What spirits are you familiar with?

None.

Hill: None of this assuming somebody's innocent

Until they're proven guilty nonsense.

He knows she's guilty, in his mind, there's no question.

When did you first covenant with the devil?

I have never.

Do you not have a contract with the devil?

Narrator: Finally, after several failed attempts

To get a confession,

Hathorne turns to the afflicted girls.

Is this the woman that hurts you?

Look at her.

The girls' reaction is shocking.

They're clearly manifesting their pain and torture

To the audience.

Little: They probably weren't legitimately afraid of the women

That they were accusing of witchcraft.

You would expect that the witch would turn all of her power

Against you, against the accuser.

Howe: The behavior of the afflicted girls is seen

Not just by the magistrates doing the examinations

But also by the townsfolk as strongly suggestive of guilt.

Sarah good.

Do you not see now what you have done?

Why do you not tell us the truth? Why?

Narrator: Desperate to save herself,

Sarah good points the finger at the two other suspects.

You should have brought other people

To this meeting house with me.

And he said "what others?"

Osborne.

Narrator: It's now a fight for survival,

But who will ultimately take the fall?

Narrator: Salem village is seemingly under attack

From demonic forces.

Three women have been arrested

On suspicion of witchcraft.

Now they face examination in the village meeting house.

Attention at the examinations now turns to sarah osborne.

Sarah osborne was a bit of an outcast in the village.

She'd done something very scandalous in her past.

Howe: Sarah osborne hasn't been seen at meeting for some time.

One school of thought holds that it's because she has taken up

With a man who worked for her.

So there is a sexual dimension to sarah osborne's alienation

From the religious community.

Sarah osborne.

Narrator: Already convinced of sarah osborne's guilt,

Hathorne immediately tries

To get her to make a damning confession.

What evil spirits are you familiar with?

None.

In her attempt to clear her name, she testified

That she was more likely to be bewitched than to be a witch.

And she told a story about an apparition that she had seen.

I saw a dark specter.

But she slipped up and told the magistrates

That this diabolical figure had warned her

Not to go to meeting, not to attend church.

And, in fact, she had not attended church

For a year and a half at that time.

So you admit you confer with the devil himself?

Because of illness, but it appeared more sinister

Before the court.

Narrator: Like sarah good, sarah osborne denies

Having any involvement in witchcraft.

Finally, amid great anticipation,

Tituba is called forward for the last interrogation.

Hill: Straight away, the girls just all started screaming

And shouting.

Why do you hurt these children?

What harm have they done to you?

I do no harm to them.

Aronson: She starts out by denying that she is a witch.

I have done nothing.

And she sees that is not going well.

Does the devil tell you he hurts them?

And then her testimony shifts.

Tell me the truth.

Who hurts them?

The devil, for all I know.

She reads the situation.

Ahh.

She shifts immediately from being combative

To being acquiescent.

And she gives the court what the court seems to want.

I think she's incredibly savvy in certain ways,

She realizes

That if she confesses, she might make it out alive.

Hill: Hathorne, instead of being harsh and angry

And pressing, he was delighted with her.

I mean, this was what he wanted to hear.

And how does the devil appear?

I think yesterday, I saw a thing like a man.

All in black.

Brock: When tituba says she sees the devil,

She doesn't say she sees a grotesque winged beast.

She says she sees a man.

Howe: Tituba describes him as a man in a black hat.

Some historians have pointed to the fact

That she describes a man who dresses like samuel parris.

Narrator: The crowd is stunned into silence

As tituba begins her story.

He appeared as I was scrubbing the floor.

Serve me.

He told me he was a god.

And he asked me to serve him.

Believe in me.

Serve me for six years

And I will give you many fine things.

She said he was going to hurt the children,

And he wanted my help.

Refuse, and I will hurt both you and the children.

See?

For you.

You're no god.

This is a matter for my master.

When I refused, he disappeared.

You will see me again.

A few days later he came back with good wife good.

Parris: Spirit come upon this house,

We ask that you heal these children.

He offered me a-a little yellow bird.

Narrator: Tituba describes the yellow bird

Flying above the family's praying heads,

Seen only by her and the children

Whose eyes had been opened to the invisible world.

We ask that you give the souls in this house...

She describes being offered money.

And being offered rest from work.

For a woman who is not free,

In some sense, I see tituba's confession

As a very profound expression of a wish for all of the power

That she is denied.

All the pain and suffering that is brought into my life.

Then on another bird, I saw the face of good wife osborne.

Sign the book and be free.

In the fireplace, I saw a creature.

All-over hairy, like an imp.

Narrator: The devil asks tituba if she would like the imp

As her servant.

No, no, I would not.

Serve me.

Say she that the devil sought to make her sign

Away her soul in his book.

Little: It's a very protestant vision that there

Would be a book involved,

Because of course puritans are people of the book.

It's an especial perversion for an enslaved woman

To pick up a pen and make her mark or write her name.

Good signed.

Osborne signed.

You sign.

He then offered me the book again and made me sign it.

But in it, written, I saw were nine other names.

Narrator: It's a shocking revelation

That suggests there are nine other witches in salem.

The court room is stunned.

So now the hunt is on.

Narrator: When tituba confesses

That she has been visited by the devil,

It confirms salem's worst fears.

The village is under siege, and there are nine other

Unnamed witches that need to be found.

As tituba's interrogation concludes,

Once again the afflicted children burst into fits.

Who now afflicts these children?

Sarah good. Who else?

Sensing her options closing in.

Tituba claims she too is afflicted.

I cannot see.

I am blinded.

Moments later, tituba is rendered speechless,

Forcing john hathorne to end the examination.

Since witchcraft is a hanging offence, the three suspects

Are transferred to boston jail to await their formal trial.

Unwilling to accept her fate,

Sarah good attempts to escape.

It does her no good.

Howe: Tituba's confession confirms the suspicion

That witchcraft is responsible

For what's happening in the village.

Now, for samuel parris, what a relief.

You know, it's not that there's something wrong with his soul.

It's not that there's something wrong with his leadership.

The problem lies outside of him.

Coy: This was the confirmation of everything he'd been warning

About vis-à-vis the devil's assaults on the community

In the last days.

We pray god that the evil has been banished

From the children.

This thing is not done.

They are three.

Yet we know the devil hides among us nine.

Aronson: There are nine.

There's a man in black. There's a book.

This confirms what a lot of people feel.

This is the moment where everything changes.

It is not, anymore, about a few unpopular women

Who people have always been suspicious about.

I bring the book.

It's a conspiracy.

Narrator: Still to come on "witches of salem"...

Fear can be a very contagious phenomenon.

This moves from the hand of satan upon the parris household

To the hand of satan upon all of salem village.

the girls just went wild.

I am not a witch.

It became apparent that if you confessed to witchcraft

That they would keep you alive at least for a while.

Hill: It's the most extraordinary event.

Aronson: The visions of the black masses

Are so clearly the reverse of a regular service.

It sent shock waves through the salem community.

The anticipation would have been

So thick you could have cut it with a knife.

We offer this witch for your judgment.

Howe: It's chilling to think about watching someone you know

Hanged to death and feeling good.

The whole godly kingdom is in deadly peril.