On this day in ancient Babylonia, an annual festival of prayers and feasts took place in honour of Gula, the goddess of birth. *** On this date in the year 1692, Giles Corey (a Massachusetts man charged with the crime of Witchcraft) was pressed to death by two large stones in Salem for refusing to acknowledge the Court's right to try him. XXX
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