Dan Barrett is Giles Corey. Not the Giles Corey that was pressed to death in New England in 1692, but Barrett isn’t much different. Giles Corey is the moniker of Dan Barrett, the Connecticut based ...

Giles Corey died on the third day. A landowner and father of five children – among them, a daughter named Deliverance – he refused to plead before the jurors for the charge of witchcraft. He was ...

Earlier this week, The Flenser announced their 2023 NYC showcase with a joint set by Dan Barrett’s projects Have A Nice Life and Giles Corey, as well as Midwife and Planning For Burial, happening at ...

Giles Corey is a name that I will never forget, and not just because it’s a fun one to say. If you aren’t familiar with Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible,” or the general lore behind the Salem Witch ...

On this day, Sept. 19, in 1692, Giles Corey was pressed to death after refusing to plead in the witch trials in Salem, Mass. He is believed to be the only person in America to have suffered this ...

SINCE this is the effect, we cannot imagine it to have been other than the intention of Mr. Longfellow in these poems to seize the popular idea of the witch and Quaker persecutions of our olden time, ...

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While it's conceivable that a book centered on "nine days of rituals to free hundreds of ghosts in the Massachusetts Bay Colony" could work, this muddled novel does not. In 2009, retired academic ...