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My submission for the CODEX OBSCURA. I called it "The Swimming of Rosy Hyland". "It is commonly known that water is a pure and cleansing element. It is an instrument of baptism and hence rejects those who have been touched by the devil. Men and women who practise witchcraft will not sink, but rather float to the surface. This is why the 'swimming of witches' or the 'trial by water' became a necessary instrument to weed out Satan's children. Rosy Hyland, daughter of Mary Hyland, had been…