Corey pleaded to have more weight added, so that his death might come quickly. On Monday, September 19, Corey was stripped naked, a board placed upon his chest, and then-while his neighbors watched-heavy stones and rocks were piled on the board. It was a punishment never before seen-or ever again inflicted-in the colony of Massachusetts. The penalty for refusing to stand for trial was death by pressing under heavy stones. By avoiding conviction, it became more likely that his farm, which Corey recently deeded to his two sons-in-law, would not become property of the state upon his death. Both Ann Putnam and Mercy Lewis described Corey as "a dreadful wizard." Corey knew he faced conviction and execution, so he chose to refuse to stand for trial. When Corey's case finally went before the grand jury in September, nearly a dozen witnesses came forward with damning evidence such as testimony by Elizabeth and Alice Booth that Corey served bread and wine at a sacrament attended by over fifty witches. Other girls were to describe Corey as "a dreadful wizard" and recount stories of assaults by his specter.Ĭorey was examined by magistrates on April 18, then left to languish with his wife in prison for five months awaiting trial. Later, Putnam was to claim that a ghost appeared before her to announce that it had been murdered by Corey. Ann Putnam claimed that on April 13 the specter of Giles Corey visited her and asked her to write in the Devil's book.
Unsurprisingly, the girls countered with accusations of witchcraft against Giles in April 1692. Giles Corey, certain of his Martha's innocence, spoke out against the girls who sent his wife to jail. Based on the girls' testimony, Martha Corey was sent to the Salem jail to await trial. Night seen Corey praying to the Devil outside the window of the Putnam home during a family dinner. Ann Putnam told Hathorne that she had one They interrupted Hathorne's questioning with piercing screams and claims that Corey was biting, scratching, or strangling them. During an examination before John Hathorne, the girls claimed to see a yellow bird suckling between Martha Corey's fingers. When the girls learned of her attacks, they quickly responded by accusing her of witchcraft.
In March of 1692, Martha Corey made the mistake of publicly questioning the sincerity of the accusations of the afflicted girls. He and his wife Martha lived on a farm in the southwest corner of Salem village. Giles Corey was a prosperous, uneducated, eighty-year-old farmer and full member of the church. Which is not life, but only death in life.
In courts where ghosts appear as witnessesĪnd swear men's lives away.
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