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	Witch Trial Review
		The length of Witch Trial seems to be about right for ensuring the the game is usually won by superior play rather than by lucky breaks; that is to say that the number of cases that are tried over the course of a game is just about perfect.
		If the two players involved in a trial agree to a Plea Bargain before a single card is played that means they can use the cards in their hands to litigate future cases.
		If Witch Trial was pure negotiation or pure card play I'm certain I wouldn't like it nearly as much as the amalgamation it is. The theme adds to the fun, although it is a bit macabre and uneven.
	www.thegamesjournal.com /reviews/WitchTrial.shtml (1595 words)

	LOCAL WITCH TRIAL (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A witchcraft trial was one held in the Allegheny Valley.
		The crowd at the trial clamored for the death of the trembling woman.
		It was said that he wrote a report of the trial, the first and perhaps only case of witchcraft to come to trial in Western Pennsylvania.
	www.akvhs.org /local_witch_trial.htm (243 words)

	Derby Square Tours - Witch Trial Trail
		As the tour route winds through downtown Salem, stopping at the Burying Point and other 17th century sites related to the witch trials, you will learn about the underlying causes of the events of 1692, the stories of some of the accusers and accused, and relevant legal, political, and social issues.
		The one-hour and twenty minute candlelit walk, developed by Witch Trial Trail creator Jim McAllister, includes the stories of "Crayon Boy," the "Sheriff", and other alleged haunters of local buildings; the eerie saga of the phantom crew of the fishing schooner Andrew Johnson; and a number of bizarre episodes related to the Salem Witch Trials.
		Bill, who once made a pilgrimage to Transylvania, is fascinated by the Salem witch trials and feels he may have been alive during that time in an earlier life..
	www.derbysquaretours.com /trail.htm (638 words)

	Witchcraft: Salem Witch Craft Trial
		The salem witch craft troubles all began in New England in the winter of 1692, a year of political uncertainty throughout the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
		Parris begged the afflicted girls to name the witches, and so Elizabeth blurted out the name of Tituba and other names such as Sarah Good, a despised pipe-smoking beggar, and Sarah Osborne, who had scandalized the village by living openly with a man before marriage.
		She also claimed that she was one of many witches in the village and that a tall man from Boston had shown her a book listing all the witches in the colony.
	www.witchcraft.com.au /salem.html (324 words)

	Witches Galore - The Pendle Witches
		For the first time in their lives this motley crew were noticed and listened to by important people and appeared to be enjoying the attention unaware that they were incriminating themselves as the stories they told gathered momentum and embroidery.
		Demdike, Chattox, Alizon and Anne Redfern were sent for trial at Lancaster Assizes, Picture their journey under guard through the Trough of Bowland, partly in a waggoner’s cart, partly walking through the steep Trough itself, finally to be incarcerated in the grim flness of the dungeons at Lancaster Castle.
		There are still cottages with witch posts where a crooked sixpence would be placed to speed the butter-churning, but no longer does the farmer toss a crown piece into the churn or make a sudden thrust into the cream with a red-hot poker to drive off Demdike with the hissing.
	www.witchesgalore.co.uk /thewitches.html (1277 words)

	Salem Witch Trials - MSN Encarta
		Salem Witch Trials, trials that occurred during the years 1692 and 1693 in the eastern counties of colonial Massachusetts in which people were accused of being witches.
		Trials of women and men for witchcraft were common in Europe from the 1300s to the end of the 1600s.
		In the Salem cases, as in previous witchcraft trials, the suspects were all indicted by grand juries and found guilty by juries of their neighbors, according to the rules of criminal procedure then in force.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_701701818/Salem_Witch_Trials.html (1080 words)

	PlanetPapers - The Salem Witch Trial
		The infamous Witch Trials done at Salem, Massachusetts, which spread across the continent, was an example of people’s injustice acts in response to superstitions.
		One of the major cause of the Salem Witchcraft trials was superstition, an “irrational belief or practice resulting from ignorance or fear of the unknown” (www.encyclopedia.com).
		The Salem witch trials is a manifestation of people’s ungrateful deeds.
	www.planetpapers.com /Assets/5194.php (750 words)

	Witch trial at AllExperts
		One particular case that is often cited as an early witch trial is the death of Hypatia in 415 CE.
		Supporters of the idea that the mob thought of her as a witch point to the fact that the method of her death, being gouged to death with jagged potsherds is similar to the sentence the Emperor Constantine declared for workers of fl magic.
		The first medieval trials against witches date to the 13th century with the institution of the Inquisition, but they were a side issue, as the Church was concentrating on the persecution of heresy, and witchcraft, alleged or real, was treated as any other sort of heresy.
	en.allexperts.com /e/w/wi/witch_trial.htm (2963 words)

	Evolution of the English Witch Trial
		In looking at the witch trials of Europe it becomes clear that the stereo-type of the Halloween hag, with her age, her ugly looks and her tendency to eat young children caught munching on the eaves of her hourse, is not so far off the mark.
		Since the English witch was viewed simply as a criminal, and not an abominable heretic, this would explain why she was hanged, rather than burned as she would have been on the continent.
		The eventual appearance of the witches' sabbath in English trials has been explained in the past by claiming that the Protestants who were in exile on the continent during the reign of Queen Mary, brought back with them the fears and theories of continental witchcraft when they returned after the coronation of Elizabeth.
	www.historicgames.com /learnmore/witchtrials.html (3746 words)

	Salem Witch Trials
		The answer to that is quite simple; if one pleaded guilty (meaning he or she was a witch), then the Puritans would let that person go because he or she would have the power to inflict revenge upon the townspeople had they executed the said witch.
		Witches and witch hunts are a part of the culture from which the settlers of Salem came from.
		The belief is that witches should not reside in heaven or on earth, and that when there is a witch in a town, then that town suffers because of that witch.
	www.007academics.com /salemwitchtrials.html (2557 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Witchcraft
		Also we must notice that a good many suspected witches were subjected to the ordeal of cold water, but as the sinking of the victim was regarded as a proof of her innocence, we may reasonably believe that the verdicts so arrived at were generally verdicts of acquittal.
		Gregory VII in 1080 wrote to King Harold of Denmark forbidding witches to be put to death upon presumption of their having caused storms or failure of crops or pestilence.
		In a witch trial on a large scale carried on at Toulouse in 1334, out of sixty-three persons accused of offences of this kind, eight were handed over to the secular arm to be burned and the rest were imprisoned either for life or for a long term of years.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15674a.htm (3393 words)

	Salem, Massachusetts -- History
		To understand the events of the Salem witch trials, it is necessary to examine the times in which accusations of witchcraft occurred.
		Standing as a reminder of the lessons of tolerance and understanding learned from the Salem Witch Trials, the memorial creates a quiet, contemplative environment in which to evoke the spirit and strength of those people who chose to die rather than compromise their personal truths.
		The stories of the Salem Witch Trials of 1629 are told at the Salem Witch Museum, Salem Wax Museum of Witches & Seafarers, Witch Dungeon Museum, Witch History Museum and the Witch House.
	www.salem.org /witch_trials.asp (598 words)

	WebQuest (Site not responding. Last check: )
		However, in every trial there is a defense team, and they will consist of some of the people involved with the Witch's demise.
		The trial will be performed in front of the rest of the class who will decide on the verdict.
		After the trials have finished, you will all then be given the assignment to look at a situation that you have come across where you believe the end result was wrong.
	schools.sd68.bc.ca /ed611/grubb/WebQuest.htm (1716 words)

	The Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692
		From June through September of 1692, nineteen men and women, all having been convicted of witchcraft, were carted to Gallows Hill, a barren slope near Salem Village, for hanging.
		Another man of over eighty years was pressed to death under heavy stones for refusing to submit to a trial on witchcraft charges.
		Hundreds of others faced accusations of witchcraft; dozens languished in jail for months without trials until the hysteria that swept through Puritan Massachusetts subsided.
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/salem.htm (76 words)

	Witch Trial Game Center (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Society has chosen to rid itself of the influence of "witches," i.e., unmarried women, free thinkers, vegetarians, the homeless, and other undesirables.
		In Witch Trial, you play an attorney at a prestigious law firm.
		Witch Trial™ is a Trademark of Cheapass Games, Inc. Copyright 2001.
	www.gametableonline.com /wwwthreads/htdocs/html_en/WitchTrialGameCenter.htm (153 words)

	Unexplained Mysteries :: Witch trial recreated in Cavalese, Italy
		The period when women accused of being witches were burned at the stake was recreated in a suggestive atmosphere amid music and processions in period costume at Cavalese ski area in Italy last week.
		The “Processo alle streghe” (or witch trial) was staged at 9pm on 5th January, for a recreating the events which, between 1500 and 1505 led to the burning of about 20 of the valley’s women, all of whom were accused of witchcraft.
		On the big night the past came alive and visitors/spectators found themselves immersed in the 16th century, as they watched the witch trials by torchlight.
	www.unexplained-mysteries.com /viewnews.php?id=31506 (214 words)

	NEW SALEM WITCH TRIAL
		Her documented role in the witch trials includes arrest and confession of witchcraft on March 1, 1692.
		A memorial honoring the victims of the witch trials was built in Salem in 1992.
		This is a misrepresentation that witches are anxious to dispel.
	www.umary.edu /faculty/jlbrud/HIS271/Webographies/NEWSALEMWITCHTRIAL.htm (1836 words)

	The Salem Witch Trials
		The picture of a witch that the puritans had on their mind was the witch flying overhead on her broomstick.
		The witch and the broomstick are related but witches don't ride on them, they sweep an area clean of negativity.
		At the time of the Salem witchcraft trials, a broom was propped outside the front door as a sign to callers that the woman of the house was not at home.
	cassonianonline.tripod.com /trials.htm (2755 words)

	Funagain Games: Witch Trial
		Witch Trial is a hilarious romp through the precarious details of our legal system, designed by James Ernest and illustrated with entertaining Victorian clip art.
		Witch Trial is a hit and is one of their better designs since "The Very Clever Pipe Game".
		Witch Trial is a good filler, and one that makes you wish Cheapass would do more like this and less like, well, most everything else they do.
	www.funagain.com /control/product/~product_id=011342/~affil=SUBV (2107 words)

	The Salem Witch Trials, 1692
		Martha Corey was different; she was an upstanding member of the Puritan congregation - her revelation as a witch demonstrated that Satan's influence reached to the very core of the community.
		They affirmed she had a yellow bird that used to suck betwixt her fingers; and being asked about it, if the had any familiar spirit that attended her, she said she had no familiarity with any such thing, she was a gospel woman, which title she called herself by.
		The afflicted persons asked her why she did not go to the company of witches which were before the meeting house mustering.
	www.eyewitnesstohistory.com /salem.htm (1251 words)

	Salem Witch Trials
		The true end to the trials of the Court of Oyer and Terminer, however, came on October 3, 1692 when Increase Mather, father of Cotton Mather, preached a sermon that was soon published as Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits Personating Men.
		Karlsen's demographic analysis of the available data shows that not those accused but those convicted of witchcraft in Salem and elsewhere were overwhelmingly women over the age of forty, with women over sixty being at an especially high risk for both accusation and conviction.
		A similar case is that of Abigail Faulkner, who took charge of the family estate when her husband became incapacitated and was almost immediately denounced as a witch.
	www.wsu.edu /~campbelld/amlit/witch.htm (980 words)

	Salem Witch Trials Page - History of the 1692 witch trials in Salem
		The events that took place in the town of Salem and nearby towns in Massachusetts will be forever regarded as one of our young nation's most tarnished moments in history.
		We present the facts and you will hopefully come to your own conclusion as you delve deeper into the Salem Witch Trials at SalemWitchTrials.com.
		And, yes, many of your basic questions about the Salem trials can be found -- and answered -- on our witch trial FAQ section as well.
	www.salemwitchtrials.com (224 words)

	Witch Trial History
		Salem Witch Trials: 5 hung on July 19th, 5 hung on August 19th, and 8 were hung on September 22nd.
		Witch trial in Northamptonshire; Elinor Shaw and Mary Phillips executed for Witchcraft.
		The last trial and judicial execution in Europe itself was probably that of two aged beldames, Satanists, who were burned at the stake in Poland.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Acropolis/8713/TimeNF.htm (1015 words)

	Salem Witch Trials: Images
		A tradition in the Noble family holds that the model for Witch Hill was a Cincinnati librarian who was a descendant of a woman who was executed in the Salem witch trials.
		In the background a witch rides on a broomstick, brandishing a snake in her hand; to the left, spectral images fly out of the boiling cauldron; and a cat leaps into the scene from the right.
		References to cat familiars, flying witches, and spectral images are common features of the court records of the Salem witch trials.
	jefferson.village.virginia.edu /salem/generic.html (493 words)

	The Salem Witch Trial (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Nineteen “witches” were hanged at Gallows Hill in 1692, and one defendant, Giles Cory, was tortured to death for refusing to enter a plea at his trial.
		Another theory is that the girls simply wanted attention, and the more attention they got from their antics and their witch stories, the more they continued the deception until they themselves either believed their tale or were too afraid to recant.
		This counter-magic was meant to reveal the identities of the "witches" to the afflicted girls.
	witches.monstrous.com /the_salem_witch_trial.htm (2494 words)

	Salem Witch Trials
		This project consists of an electronic collection of primary source materials relating to the Salem witch trials of 1692 and a new transcription of the court records.
		Identify the way that the trials were conducted; i.e., testimony, type of evidence allowed, defense, etc. Conduct the mock trial as accurately as possible.
		This unit begins with an overview of Puritain doctrine in relation to the Salem Witch Trials of the late 17th century.
	www.42explore2.com /salemwitch.htm (1439 words)

	skipressworld » Witch Trial Recreated in Cavalese, Italy
		Cavalese, Italy (Ski Press) The period when women accused of being witches were burned at the stake was recreated in a suggestive atmosphere amid music and processions in period costume at Cavalese ski area in Italy last week.
		The event began when the “witches” are brought from prison and led before about a hundred characters dressed in 16th century attire, before being questioned and sentenced to death by burning at the stake.
		A drum roll marked the beginning of the trial and the atmosphere became heavy with drama, before a passionate cross-examination begins between witches and judge, after which the final sentence was approved by way of the traditional voting system involving little marbles placed in a cavity in the “Banco de la Reson”.
	www.skipressworld.com /eu/en/daily_news/2005/01/witch_trial_recreated_in_cavalese_italy.html?cat=Resorts (385 words)

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