In the article “Spectral Evidence, Non-Spectral acts of witchcraft, and confession at Salem in 1692”, Wendel D. Craker argues that the courts used what they considered during the time of these trials empirical evidence (Craker, W. 1997, pg.350). The evidence that the court’s used was categorized into three parts, which were confessions, spectral evidence, and non-spectral (Craker, W. 1997, pg.332). The court's main objective was to bring those who had sufficient evidence against them for non-spectral acts to trial, which was considered a crime punishable by hanging (Craker, W. 1997, pg.342). As Craker mentions in the article, the court’s used testimonies by respected members of the community of the accused as a type of empirical evidence that
