Editing Giles Corey (section)

==Legacy==
===Legends===
[[File:GilesCorey-FatherFather-Pyle.jpg|thumb|upright|"Father Father", illustration accompanying ''Giles Cory, Yeoman'', a play by [[Mary E. Wilkins Freeman]], ''Harper's New Monthly Magazine'', Volume LXXXVI, 1893]]

According to a local legend, the [[Ghost|apparition]] of Corey appears and walks his graveyard each time a disaster is about to strike the city. Notably, he was said to have appeared the night before the [[Great Salem Fire of 1914]].<ref name="curse2">{{cite web|title=The Curse of Giles Corey |website=History of Massachusetts |first=Rebecca Beatrice |last=Brooks |date=12 October 2011 |url=http://historyofmassachusetts.org/the-curse-of-giles-corey/ |access-date=28 December 2014}}</ref> The position of [[List of Sheriffs of Essex County, Massachusetts|Sheriff of Essex County]] was also said to have suffered from the "curse of Giles Corey," as the holders of that office, since Corwin, had either died or resigned as a result of heart or blood ailments (Corwin died of a heart attack in 1696). The curse was said to have been broken when the sheriff's office was moved from Salem to [[Middleton, Massachusetts|Middleton]] in 1991.<ref name="curse2"/><ref name="curse">{{cite web|url=http://www.dreadcentral.com/cold-spots/15766/cold-spots-the-curse-of-giles-corey/|title=Cold Spots – The Curse of Giles Corey|work=Dread Central|date=15 February 2010}}</ref>

===Literature===
Corey is the subject of a [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]] play entitled ''Giles Corey of the Salem Farms''<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/gilescoreyofsale00long |title=Giles Corey of the Salem Farms |last=Longfellow |first=Henry Wadsworth |publisher=Houghton, Mifflin & Co |year=1900 |location=Boston, New York [etc.]}}</ref> and an 1893 play, ''Giles Corey, Yeoman'', by [[Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman]].<ref>{{Cite book |url=http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17960 |title=Giles Corey, Yeoman: A Play |last=Freeman |first=Mary Eleanor Wilkins |publisher=Harper & Brothers |year=1893 |language=en}}</ref>

===Popular culture===
Corey is a character in [[Arthur Miller]]'s play ''[[The Crucible]]'' (1953), in which he is portrayed as a hot-tempered but honorable man, giving evidence critical to the witch trials. His wife Martha was one of the 19 people hanged during the hysteria on Proctor's Ledge. In ''The Crucible'', Giles feels guilty about his wife's accusation because he had told a minister that Martha had been reading strange books, which was discouraged in that society. Corey also appears in [[Robert Ward (composer)|Robert Ward]]'s [[The Crucible (opera)|operatic treatment]] of the play, in which his role is assigned to a tenor.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://select.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F10814F73F541B728DDDAE0A94D8415B818AF1D3| title=Opera: Robert Ward's 'The Crucible'; Work Based on Miller Play at City Center| work=[[The New York Times]]| author= Harold C. Schonberg| date= 27 October 1961| access-date= 18 May 2009| author-link=Harold C. Schonberg}}</ref> A [[The Crucible (1996 film)|movie of the same name]] was released in 1996, featuring [[Peter Vaughan]] as Corey.<ref>{{IMDb title|0115988|The Crucible}}</ref>

Actor [[Kevin Tighe]] portrayed Corey in the pilot episode of the WGN television series ''[[Salem (TV series)|Salem]]'', in which he is pressed to death in a more-or-less historically accurate manner.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/the-real-characters-behind-the-story-of-wgns-salem-97004318260.html |title=The Real Characters Behind the Story of WGN's 'Salem' |last=Potts |first=Kimberly |date=19 April 2014 |website=Yahoo! Entertainment |language=en-US |access-date=17 September 2018 }}</ref>

Corey was the namesake behind one of [[Dan Barrett (musician, born 1980)|Dan Barrett]]'s musical projects. The band's music has been described as depressing.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://beatsperminute.com/album-review-giles-corey-giles-corey/|title=Album Review: Giles Corey - Giles Corey|website=[[Beats Per Minute (website)|Beats Per Minute]]|last=Finlayson|first=Ray|date=30 November 2011|accessdate=14 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200317065011/https://beatsperminute.com/album-review-giles-corey-giles-corey/|archive-date=17 March 2020|url-status=live}}</ref>