After Tituba admitted to being a witch and said that she and four other witches "had flown through the air on their poles" (Linder), panic spread through Salem , and the witch hunts expanded (Linder) (Brattle) (Brooks). City jails filled quickly as more and more people were charged and arrested. With the prisons full of arrested men and women, the governor decided there must be a method to convict witches, so he set up a court to take and evaluate witchcraft cases. Many different types of evidence were accepted and used in court; tests were carried out to help convict accused witches: the judges also decided to allow the so-called "touch test" (defendants were asked to see whether their touch, as was generally assumed for witches' touch, would stop their contortions) and examinations of defendants' bodies for evidence of "witch marks" (snows or similar that a witch's familiar might suck on)