Which of the following early American colonial authors was a…
Which of the following early American colonial authors was a minister and judge who was a true believer in witchcraft? Later in life, when confessed witches began recanting their testimony, he may have begun to have doubts about at least some of the proceedings. He revised his own position on the use of spectral evidence and tried to minimize his own large role in its consideration in the Salem trials. He then turned away from the supernatural and may well have come to question whether it played the role in life he first suspected.
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