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Spectral evidence - Wikipedia
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WebSpectral evidence is a form of legal evidence based upon the testimony of those who claim to have experienced visions . Such testimony was frequently given during the witch trials of the 16th and 17th centuries. The alleged victims of witchcraft would claim to have been tormented by the spectral images of certain named members of the community ...

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Spectral Evidence and the Salem Witch Trials - ThoughtCo
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WebAug 14, 2019 · Spectral evidence is evidence-based on visions and dreams of the actions of a witch's spirit or specter. Thus, spectral evidence is testimony about what an accused person's spirit did, rather than actions of the accused person in the body. In the Salem witch trials, spectral evidence was used as evidence in the courts, especially in the early ...

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What is Spectral Evidence? - History of Massachusetts Blog
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WebMay 11, 2019 · Spectral evidence is a form of evidence based on dreams and visions. It was witness testimony that a person's spirit or specter appeared to the witness in a dream or vision and afflicted them. When Was Spectral Evidence Allowed? In English tradition, spectral evidence was not accepted as evidence in…

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Evidence from Invisible Worlds in Salem | In Custodia Legis
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WebAug 20, 2020 · Spectral evidence was testimony in which witnesses claimed that the accused appeared to them and did them harm in a dream or a vision. Contemporary witch lore held that witches could project themselves spiritually, either directly or with the aid of Satan, in order to harm their victims from afar.

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Spectral Evidence: How Visions Shaped Witch Trials and Legal
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WebSpectral evidence is a form of legal evidence based upon the testimony of those who claim to have experienced visions— a conviction that these visions were the...

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How the Salem Witch Trials Influenced the American Legal System
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WebOct 4, 2021 · The Court of Oyer and Terminer also relied heavily on spectral evidence. This evidence, according to U.S. Legal.com “refers to a witness testimony that the accused person’s spirit or spectral...

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Salem witch trials - Hysteria, Accusations, Executions
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WebMost damning for them was the admission of “spectral evidence”—that is, claims by the victims that they had seen and been attacked (pinched, bitten, contorted) by spectres of the accused, whose forms Satan allegedly had assumed to work his evil.

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A Brief History of the Salem Witch Trials - Smithsonian Magazine
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WebOct 24, 2022 · On October 3, following in his son Cotton’s footsteps, Increase Mather, then-president of Harvard, denounced the use of spectral evidence: “It were better that ten suspected witches should ...

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Salem Witch Trials | Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature
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WebThe strange use of spectral evidence—the claims of the afflicted to see, experience, know, and testify about the invisible world, along with the court’s reliance on such testimony to suspect, convict, and execute the accused—would …

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The Salem Witch Trials According to the Historical Records
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WebThey were accused of witchcraft based on “spectral evidence,” which meant the court accepted testimony that disembodied spirits, or specters, were sent through dreams or visions by the accused with the help of Satan to harm the victims by stabbing, choking, biting, and jabbing them with pins. The accused were interrogated in public.

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