Great Moments in Jurisprudence, 1645.

blackjax23
Jan 8
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Hillswick, Shetland, Scotland. After failing the tried and true 'place your hands on a corpse, and if it bleeds, you're guilty' test, Marion Pardon and her husband Swene are executed for witchcraft and murder... - Samuel Hibbert (1782 - 1848), A Description of the Shetland Islands (1822).

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