In this source, the speaker is pressuring the accused by saying, “They accuse you of hurting them, & if you think it is not unwillingly but by designe, you must look upon them as murderers.” What I see here is an early example of interrogation tactics that are still recognizable today—getting people to confess to things they may not have done. The logic being pushed is that if the accused did not hurt the children by accident, then it had to be intentional, and therefore she is the one guilty. The trap in the statement is that it flips the blame onto the children, making them seem like the true “murderers,” so in the accused’s eyes anything she might have done to them would appear justifiable. It connects to Context, since understanding the fear of witchcraft and the religious panic in 1692 helps explain why this kind of statement would carry so much weight in Salem.