Giles Corey moved to Salem in 1659 and was considered dangerous.
“Corey was considered by many to be a violent man after he was charged with beating his farmhand, Jacob Goodale, to death with a stick in 1676. He stood trial, during which John Proctor testified that he heard Corey admit he had beaten Goodale, but in the end Corey was only fined for his actions.”
After his wife died in 1684, he married Martha Panon in 1690. When the trials began, Corey and his wife attended the examinations,
“As the examinations went on, Martha began to doubt their validity and even tried to persuade Giles from attending further examinations by hiding his riding saddle. These actions made Martha Corey seem suspicious and by mid-March, rumors began to swirl that Martha was a witch. The Corey’s troubles officially began on Monday, March 21,
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After Corey was arrested and brought in for his examination, it seems he had changed his mind about the witch trials.
During Corey’s examination at the Salem Village Meeting House on April 19, Judge John Hathorne and Judge Jonathan Corwin repeatedly accused him of lying and even tied his hands to prevent him from practicing witchcraft in the courtroom, according to court records written by Reverend Samuel Parris” At his trials, they tied his hands behind his back to prevent him from doing witchcraft in the courtroom. A one point they untied his hands,which caused people to act strange, “One of his hands was let go, and several were afflicted. He held his head on one side, and then the heads of several of the afflicted were held on one side. He drew in his cheeks, and the cheeks of some of the afflicted were sucked in.” He later refused to do another exam, and got