This belief in the power of the accused to use their invisible shapes or spectres to torture their victims had sealed the fates of those tried by the Court of Oyer and Terminer.

• 人们相信他们拥有不可见的形态和阴影来折磨他们的受害者，对这种能力的盲目确信早已确定了在巫师法庭上受审判的人们的命运。