Witchcraft was something of the past that was not accepted, people looked down on
things as these, superstition and witchcraft was against the law. Korbmacher (basketmaker)
who presided from German in Spring Garden was pointed out by the public as being a witch. In
1787 people of that era would blame her for illnesses that come onto children and cattle. This is
something that worried may cause the Constitutional Convention that was to take place at that
same time would somehow be ruined because of peoples actions toward witches, it would
sidetrack their intention.
Although the fathers had a great intention of bringing people to together at the
Constitutional Convention, not everyone had that same idea at heart. The statehouse
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Newspapers would describe the horrible stuff they would see from prisoners. Painting a
Picture of abuse and despair inside the prison walls. Witchcraft and superstition was something
of past ideology and the newspaper wanted people to look toward and independent America,
free of these prosecutions. It would urge people to get away from this ideology cause it could
disrupt the convention.
Trial by water was one way they would punish witches, bound up and thrown into water
To sink or float, but in the end, it would just kill them. Witches would be cut on the forehead as
A way of keeping off spells they may cast on people. Actions as these were brutal ways of death
The church and law weren’t particularly fond of.
One of the crimes that were common was mobs trying to get property that was taken
for debts and taxes. The elite in the convention were concerned because of what was going on
outside the statehouse. The poor because of their status would eventually be driven to crime
and the convention was trying to find a new way to bring progression.
The witch was blamed for the death of a child by her charms and an angry mob.