a young woman who was accused of witchcraft in 1602, was spared at trial after a physician named Edward Jorden testified that her symptoms—including “suffocation in the throate, croaking of Frogges, hissing of Snakes . . . frenzies, convulsions, hickcockes, laughing, singing, weeping, crying”—stemmed not from dabbling in the dark arts but from the effects of a displaced uterus.
