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supernatural. A farmer also swore that when his 

 cart had on one occasion touched the house of one 

 of the prisoners it overturned continually and they 

 could not get it home ; a statement which may 

 have been made in good faith, but which, to us, 

 irresistibly suggests a drunken driver. The Court 

 apparently put this also down to witchcraft. The 

 other evidence was that the " witches' mark " had 

 been found on the women ; that they had the 

 reputation of being witches, and that some of their 

 relatives had been condemned as such. On this 

 evidence the women were found guilty, and the 

 record states that as soon as they were condemned 

 the children recovered immediately. Even this did 

 not avail to. save the prisoners, who were duly 

 executed. From all which it would seem that 

 although the scientific criterion has not been ex- 

 plicitly recognised, yet its practical application has 

 greatly increased, even in courts of law, during the 

 last two centuries. 



