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A quote, such was the darkness of the day. We walked in the clouds and could not see our way.

Reverend John Hale, 1697. The words of George Burrows echoed in Reverend John Hale's mind.

As the minister of Beverly, Hale had been a part of the crisis since the very beginning.

His friend and colleague, Reverend Samuel Parris in Salem Village, had urgently requested

a visit eight months earlier when his daughter and niece were sick. Reverend Hale had agreed

that the girls appeared to be victims of witchcraft, but so much had happened since then.

The outbreak had grown in size and scale beyond anything in the short history of the colonies.

It had escalated with such speed that it was hard to comprehend.

Now six people had been executed and five more had been sentenced to join them. And

Reverend Hale couldn't shake George Burrows' last statement at his trial. Burrows had

agreed that the jury had no choice but to convict him based on the mountain of evidence

that had been presented against him. But then he said he would die due to false testimony.

And that had stuck with Hale. Could it be true? Was it possible that they were all making

horrible mistakes? He rushed from the courtroom and sought out one of the accusers. Surviving

records suggest it was Mary Lacey or her daughter. He sternly reminded her, you were the one

that brings this man to death. If you have charged anything upon him that is not true, recall

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