Gilles Corey

Gilles Corey , also spelled Cory or Korea (1612 - September 19th 1692), is one of the notorious victims of the lawsuits in the business of the Sorcières of Salem.

Corey is a prosperous farmer, and relatively lout, who lives in the south-west of Salem Village (today Danvers and united chart). It is marked in April 1692 of sorcery, in particular by Ann Putnam and Abigail Williams. Ann Putnam affirms that the spectrum of Corey required of him to write in the book of the Diable; she adds later that a phantom taught him that he was assassinated by Corey. Other young girls confirm these charges by evoking aggressions by its spectrum. It seems that Corey and his Martha wife belonged to the circle of relations Porter family, which opposed the faction of the Putnam family. Corey is often described like an old obstinate and difficult man, who criticizes the continuations for facts of sorcery.

The case of Corey is informed the April 18th 1692. Corey is then imprisoned several months, with his Martha wife. The audience of judgment is held in September. A dozen witnesses come to deposit against Corey. This one refuses to plead guilty. It was believed a long time that was perhaps by fear to see its inheritance confiscated with the profit of the State, but it is more probable than Corey - nobody obstinate - knew than it was condemned in advance. He also refuses to deny himself the charges: he refuses the lawsuit itself. To have chosen to remain thus quiet, there is condemned to undergo a sorrow called strong Peine and lasts which consists of a crushing by accumulation of stones on the body. This sorrow had never yet been applied in the colony of the Massachusetts. Corey dies at the end of three days, dying officially the September 19th 1692. His Martha wife is hung a few days later, the September 22nd 1692.

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