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What was it called in the days of the Salem witch trials if you floated you were a witch if you drowned you were human? |
It was called "Dunking" or "trial by water"
No witches were ever found and the poor souls who were executed this way all supposedly made their way to their accusers idea of Heaven.
In Salem, those accused of witchcraft were given two options. One option was to submit to a trial, which consisted of tying the accused to a board and dunking the person in a "pure'' pond while the deacon slowly recited the Lord's Prayer three times. If the accused survived the dunking, the purity of the accused's soul was vindicated and he or she was set free; if the accused did not survive, guilt and sentence were simultaneously announced. No one recalled any acquittals as a result of this process.
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