Reported supernatural visions used as legal testimony
Spectral evidence is a form of legal evidence based upon the testimony of those who claim to have experienced visions.
Such testimony was frequently given during the witch trials of the 16th and 17th centuries. The alleged victims of witchcraft would claim to have been tormented by the spectral images of certain named members of the community; this was taken as evidence that those named were witches, and had given the Devil permission to assume their appearance.[1] If accepted by a court, this testimony was virtually impossible to refute.[2] However, spectral evidence was rarely used to secure a conviction, as theologians were unable to agree that the Devil could not take on the shape of an innocent person.[3] The debate about the validity of spectral evidence rose to a climax with the Bury St Edmunds witch trial of 1662, and the Salem witch trials of 1692–93.
Spectralevidence is a form of legal evidence based upon the testimony of those who claim to have experienced visions. Such testimony was frequently given...
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urging the magistrates not to convict on spectralevidence alone. (The court later ruled that spectralevidence was inadmissible, which caused a dramatic...
spectralevidence, and as chief judge inclined to believe that all the accused were guilty. In fact, the real Danforth opposed the use of "spectral evidence"...
participated in the proceedings. He advised the judges against using spectralevidence and offered recommendations to proceed with caution lest innocent...
meaning "spectre". Spectralevidence is testimony about what was done by spectres of persons not present physically, or hearsay evidence about what ghosts...
Massachusetts and Salem Village. The petition questioned the validity of spectralevidence, testified to the Christian lives that John and Elizabeth had led...
the witches (the simultaneous efficacy and deep unreliability of "spectralevidence"), Semites were – I write in the past tense because Semites are a...
ordinary chondrite in composition, shows spectralevidence of space weathering. In addition, definitive evidence of space weathering alteration has been...
of Oyer & Terminer in June 1692. That court relied heavily on the spectralevidence, examinations, interrogations, and affidavits previously conducted...
the time. The trials at Bury St. Edmunds and Salem included this "spectralevidence" against defendants. Matthew Hopkins described the phenomenon in his...
individuals in Salem Village. Mercy Lewis was a major contributor of spectralevidence in the examination of Elizabeth Howe. She threw herself to the floor...
Hardersen, Paul S.; Gaffey, Michael J. & Abell, Paul A. (2005). "Near-IR spectralevidence for the presence of iron-poor orthopyroxenes on the surfaces of six...
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confident detection impossible. Recent evidence from the EUNIS sounding rocket has provided some spectralevidence for non-flaring plasma at temperatures...
Hardersen, Paul S.; Gaffey, Michael J. & Abell, Paul A. (2005). "Near-IR spectralevidence for the presence of iron-poor orthopyroxenes on the surfaces of six...
the court for an opportunity to present evidence which supported her innocence, and to exclude spectralevidence (testimony that the spirit of someone did...
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29 September 2015. Ojha L, Wilhelm MB, Murchie SL, et al. (2015). "Spectralevidence for hydrated salts in recurring slope lineae on Mars". Nature Geoscience...
degenerated into, in part by a reliance on "evidence" of a non-objective nature and especially "spectralevidence" in which the accusers claimed to see devils...
Mather's Return does not disallow, or discredit, the admission of spectralevidence (accusations of a crime committed by one's "specter", against which...
longer considered spectralevidence as valid. When Stoughton temporarily removed himself to protest Governor Phips' ban on spectralevidence and other related...
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spherical and is close to a hydrostatic equilibrium shape. Based on spectralevidence, Hygiea's surface is thought to consist of primitive carbonaceous...
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