(October 26, 2014 at 5:57 pm)abaris Wrote: That should have been my next question. Why did they hang them or press them to death in Salem if only fire or water do the trick?
Because that'd be engaging the logical fallacy of poisoning the well, or burning down wooden women (related to straw men, but witches are made out of wood and supposedly predominately female).
Besides, it's symbolic of how they roped the witches into the trial.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
