Since the accusation was BS, it was just murder. Even the blitering a-hole Cotton Mather came to regret his condemnation of the murders of those accused of witchcraft in Salem et al — many years later. None of the false accusations ever resulted in punishment for the perjurers, afaik. Sounds like the events of the past five years.
Yeah that was his implication. He thought the German accusers knew they were lying. That makes it murder.
I know the Salem witch trial accusers/prosecution did repent but it’s not clear to me that the accusations weren’t just the result of hysteria rather than malice. Wasn’t Cotton Mather a believer in spectral evidence?
We do see that kind of hysteria now. The daycare child abuse trials were very recent.