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In the practice to weed out the witches from the non-witches, the people would tie cement to the accused woman's foot and throw her into a lake. If the woman drowned, she was not a witch, if she lived, then she was convicted of witchery. This method...as you can see was not very thorough, or smart. Others were just burned at the stake after being tried in court if they were lucky enough to receive the sentence.

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