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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The creepiest thing I've seen was a man slowly being crushed by a big stone cube. He was in the back of the truck that carried the huge cube of stone, well restrained with chains, until the truck had a head on collision. I later read in the papers he died. I still have the image of his arms and head over the stone, he was alive and looked full of hope. Sad[/quote]

I visited Salem with my Mom. The punishment for witches was piling stones atop a board while the person slowly suffocated (was crushed) underneath. We read a description of this happening to some poor, accused man. It haunted my mother for a very long time after that trip. Reading about the hope you saw in that man's eyes made that memory all the worse. Man!
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The punishment for witches was hanging.  Pressing (the stone thing) was an enhanced interrogation technique to try to get them to confess.

The man who died was Giles Corey. After he was arrested, he refused to enter a plea of guilty or not guilty and he refused to confess. He was pressed to death in an effort to get him to plead, but he refused. All he would say was "More weight."  He was 81 years old.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giles_Corey[/quote]

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