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TIL during the Salem Witch Trials, when Sarah Good was asked to confess at her execution, she told minister Nicholas Noyes "You are a liar! I am no more a witch than you are a wizard, and if you take away my life God will give you blood to drink”. 25 years later, Noyes died of a haemorrhage.

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