Some victims of the Christian Hysteria at Salem were also pressed to death, crushed by heavy weights put on top of a wooden surface over them.

Five died in prison from poor feeding and disease, awaiting trial.

http://www.witchcraftandwitches.com/images/salem_corey.jpg

Reading the trial testimony now we have a different interpretation of a guy testifying that a female tavern owner magically transported herself into his bed at night. No need to say that the devil magically transported her into the guys locked home.

The modern explanation is that he was having dirty dreams and that the problem was entirely in his own head, nothing to do with the woman, nothing supernatural.

My family tree includes victims of the Christian Insanity at Salem.

http://historyofmassachusetts.org/salem-witch-trials-victims/

"many of the accused witches were outspoken women"