The Accused is a dark historical prediction where the audience freely mixes cards depicting real people accused during the Salem Witch Trials. Through seemingly random stops, two individuals are unknowingly marked with stark red Xs, long before any outcome is revealed. A sealed letter, weighted by a small stock of wheat like period evidence, is then opened and read aloud. It is a genuine death warrant from 1692, and it names the exact two people the audience has just selected. The power of the routine isn’t just the impossible match, but the chilling realization that fate, fear, and procedure once decided life and death the same way.