The penalty for such a refusal was piene et forte (pressing to death).  On September 19, Corey was stripped naked, a board was placed upon his chest, and then heavy stones and rocks  were piled on the board while his neighbors watched.  The pressing lasted for two days until Corey finally died.  Three days after his death, his wife, Martha, was hanged.  

It has long been rumored that Corey placed a curse on Salem and its sheriff during his torture by shouting “Damn you! I curse you and Salem!” at the sheriff before he died.

Four years after Corey’s death, Sheriff Corwin died suddenly of a heart attack at just 30 years old. Local legend suggests that Corey not only cursed Corwin but every Salem sheriff since 1692. 

 In the 1970s, after Salem Sheriff Robert E. Cahill was forced to retire early due to a stroke, heart attack and rare blood condition.
 

Cahill believes that when the sheriff’s office was moved from Salem to the new prison in Middleton in 1991, it broke the curse and spared the future sheriffs. Since the move, no sheriffs have been diagnosed with any heart conditions or blood ailments.

Locals also believe Corey’s ghost still haunts the area around the Howard Street Cemetery, as it is now known, and that his ghost is often seen before and after a terrible event happens in the town.

One such occasion happened shortly before the Great Salem Fire of 1914 when witnesses saw a ghostly figure of an old man floating through the cemetery. The fire actually started near Gallows Hill where Corey’s wife, Martha, and 18 other people were hanged for witchcraft before it spread and destroyed much of the town. 

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Not much is known about Tituba’s life except that she was born in an Arawak Village in South America where she was captured during her childhood and taken to Barbados as a slave. Parris purchased her in Barbados when she was a teenager and brought her to Boston in 1680. In November of 1689, Parris moved Tituba and his family to Salem after he became the new minister of Salem. She was the first in the village to be accused of witchcraft.