Pressed


It is hard not to reflect on your own self convictions when you go to Salem.  Giles Corey was pressed to death.  It took over two days for him to die.  When the pressure from the stones being added to his body forced his tongue out his mouth, his captor pushed it back in with a twig.  All Giles had to do was plead guilty and he would not have been put to death.  If he was found guilty he would loose his valuable land, actually it would be turned over to the government.  He died in full possesion of his land and was able to pass it on to his sons.  Corey’s yelled his final words, “More Weight!”

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