"Yes Professor," Ana groaned, almost falling out of her seat as she reached down to pick up her textbook, her back cracking as she sat back up and gratefully dropped it on her desk. She couldn't wait for this day to be over.

She jumped, badly startled when the door was slammed shut by the Professor, having been paying more attention to Terry than to what was going on around her. It didn't make her feel any more alert though and she was still just as likely to fall asleep as she had been before.

Oh. Ana knew an answer for this. YAY to knowledge.

She raised her hand and said, "It was believed at the time that if a person could recite the Lord's Prayer that they were innocent of witchcraft as no-one who was consorting with the devil would physically be able to say it. The problem with this method though was that any tiny mistake, pause or stammer would be taken as evidence of guilt even if the accused could finish the prayer." Which was obviously unreasonable as who, innocent of witchcraft or not, could reasonably be expected to not do at least one of those things when they were terrified for their lives, or might even be ill or hallucinating due to the diet of the time.