Answer:
Um really crazy times
Step-by-step explanation:
so basically if you did anything suspicious they would hold a trial for you. One of them was tying your hands and throwing you into the water. If you managed to stay afloat you were a with and later hung or set on fire. If you sunk you were innocent but you died either way. Basically everyone is pointing fingers with no hard evidence. really interesting you should look it up. A book about this would be the with from the blackbird pond.