The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut (1647-1697)

Book Excerpt: ...and he shall not return, and with the judges in a case he shall not take his seat."If a man practices brigandage and is captured, that man shall be put to death."If a woman hates her husband, and says: 'thou shalt not have me, ' they shall inquire into her antecedents for her defects; and if she has been a careful mistress and is without reproach and her husband has been going about and greatly belittling her, that woman has no blame. She shall receive her presents and shall go to her father's house."If she has not been a careful mistress, has gadded about, has neglected her house and has belittled her husband, they shall throw that woman into the water."If a physician operates on a man for a severe wound with a bronze lancet and causes the man's death, or opens an abscess (in the eye) of a man with a bronze lancet and destroys the man's eye, they shall cut off his fingers."If a builder builds a house for a man and does not make its construction firm and the house, which he has built, colla.