Question

Read the sentence from "A Witch Trial at Mount Holly."

The more thinking Part of the Spectators were of Opinion that any Person so bound and placed in the Water (unless they were mere Skin and Bones) would swim, till their Breath was gone, and their Lungs fill'd with Water.

Which words support the meaning of the sentence?

Answer 1

I don't know if this is much of a answer but with colonial american witch trials they tied the defendet to a chair and threw them in the river if them and the chair floated they were a witch if it sunk they were pulled back up but mostly the defendet had drowned I'd recommend listening to the song bottom of the river it's related to the trials might have a "d×mn init