Eventually Doctor/Physician William Griggs diagnosed the girls as "under an evil hand"#. Once this suggestion of witchcraft was proposed as a source of the girl's troubles, the children began accusing increasingly respectable, propertied, and religiously observant members of the community, 30 percent of who were men#?? Make reference to its significance...
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By late Fall approximately one hundred and fifty people had been arrested, nineteen hanged and one pressed to death on the charge of conspiracy with the devil, largely based on "spectral evidence" in the form of visions and apparitions that the afflicted girls claimed to see#*. The proceeding at Salem had been controversial from the start, and in October, when a number of prominent Massachusetts clergymen including Increase Mather, called for the trial's suspension, the court proceedings were dissolved#...
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