A ritual spell for for all of those executed, who died in prison, or were forced to confess during the Salem Witch Trials, and for the countless unnamed persons who have suffered violence and incarceration at the hands of the white supremacist cishet capitalist patriarchy under the guise of purity and religious piety.
Spectral evidence is testimony that a person’s spirit or spectral shape is able to appear in a dream or vision at a time when their physical body is elsewhere. It was used during court proceedings in colonial New England to convict numerous people of murder and witchcraft, including during the Salem Witch Trials, with accusers and prosecutors insisting that the devil and witches were powerful enough to send their spirits to lead innocent, religious people astray.
Background photograph by Carol DeGuiseppi. "Nunca Jamás" performed by Sad Songs, written by Oscar Chávez. Oscar Chavez was one of Mexico’s most beloved leftist musicos, a champion of the everyday human, politicizing traditional Mexican folk music and creating songs of protest throughout the 1960s to highlight systemic inequality. Nunca Jamás tells the story of the universal gloom of pain, the labyrinth that is romantic love, and the price of regret (Sad Songs). Chávez passed away on 30 April 2020 from COVID-19. He was 85.