Touch Test For Argumentative Essay

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Artifacts: I think this is most plausible way of determining it because this is concrete evidence that you can see, touch, and know is real. it is proof and can be shown to anyone at anytime to show it is real.
Eye Witness Testimonials: This is also a good way to determine a witch or not because this is from what someone has actually seen. It isn’t made up and it happens in real life. A witness could also verify that they saw something
Spectral evidence: This is somewhat plausible but this evidence is coming from people’s dreams or visions. People can dream about anything and most things in our dreams probably aren’t true or won’t happen so this isn’t a great way to show proof someone is a witch.
Witches Teat: This could be somewhat plausible
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This has nothing to do with people’s actual actions. It is just a test that might work and might not based on when a witch makes a noise. Nothing can actually be proven with this test.
Touch Test: I don't think this is plausible because the girls accusing them might be acting crazy and wild, but calm down when the accused witch touched them just to make them seem guilty. This test is all determined by whether the girls want the witch to be proven guilty or innocent.
Forced Confession by Dunking: This is not plausible because it is forcing you to either confess you are guilty or die. No one wants to die so you don’t really have another choice but admitting it. If not, you will just continue to suffer from the pain. This made people just give up.
Pressing: This is almost the same as dunking but worse. The pain for this would be unbearable, I don’t think anyone could take that pain, so they most likely just decided to give in and admit so they wouldn’t hurt anymore.
Bout Submersion: This is definitely the most irrational because most people accused weren’t witches and they would die through this. You had to die to be proven innocent. This didn’t work either way because if you were innocent you died, and if you were guilty and loaded up, you would be executed another