CHAPTER V

The Epidemic in Connecticut--Palfrey--Trumbulls--Winthrop's

Journal--Treatment of witchcraft--Silence and evasion--The true

story--How told--Witnesses--Testimony--All classes affected--The

courts--Judges and jurors--The best evidence--The record--Grounds for

examination of a witch--Jones' summary--Witch marks--What they were--How

discovered--Dalton's Country Justice--The searchers--Searchers' report

in Disborough and Clawson cases

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