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All the convictions had come about due to a reliance on ‘spectral evidence’; without the visions of the girls there was nothing left to justify the verdicts. It was the girls’ ‘lived experience’ that damned the accused, and anyone who expressed scepticism was inviting the spotlight of suspicion to fall upon them.
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salem accusers also argued on basis of lived experience
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