Tituba also knew that if Betty did not get well soon, she would be blamed for her illness.
While Rev. Parris was sitting on the bed with Betty, guests started arriving at his house. Among the guests were Rebecca Nurse, Corey, John Proctor, Ann Putnam, and Thomas Putnam. These guests had come to Parris home because rumors started to spread around concerning Betty’s condition and some people of the town said that her condition was caused by witchcraft. As Tituba welcomed the guests, she hoped that they would not make a big deal out of it and think of out call witchcraft as the cause. More than anyone else in Parris’ home, she is the one who tried to keep the talks about witchcraft silent. She did this because she knew that the people of Salem could accuse her of being a witch since she was different and practiced acts that Salem people considered unnatural.
Her worry further in increased when Rev. Parris called for Mister Hale to come and examine Betty. Mister Hale was known in Salem for his self-assigned abilities of hunting witches and the agents of the Devil. While waiting for Mister Hale to arrive, Tituba saw Ann and Thomas Putnam going upstairs to examine …show more content…
This convinced many people that witchcraft was the cause of the illness. Indeed, just like Tituba imagined, when Mister Hale arrived to examine Betty’s condition, he tries to question everybody including Abigail and the answers Parris gives on what he saw make Abigail’s testimony bad and not believable. While this was happening, Tituba hid outside the room and listened to what was going on. Suddenly, she had Abigail mention her name and Parris telling Ann Putnam to bring her inside the room to be questioned. In hearing this, she ran to the kitchen so that Ann Putnam does not find out that she was listening to them this whole
While Rev. Parris was sitting on the bed with Betty, guests started arriving at his house. Among the guests were Rebecca Nurse, Corey, John Proctor, Ann Putnam, and Thomas Putnam. These guests had come to Parris home because rumors started to spread around concerning Betty’s condition and some people of the town said that her condition was caused by witchcraft. As Tituba welcomed the guests, she hoped that they would not make a big deal out of it and think of out call witchcraft as the cause. More than anyone else in Parris’ home, she is the one who tried to keep the talks about witchcraft silent. She did this because she knew that the people of Salem could accuse her of being a witch since she was different and practiced acts that Salem people considered unnatural.
Her worry further in increased when Rev. Parris called for Mister Hale to come and examine Betty. Mister Hale was known in Salem for his self-assigned abilities of hunting witches and the agents of the Devil. While waiting for Mister Hale to arrive, Tituba saw Ann and Thomas Putnam going upstairs to examine …show more content…
This convinced many people that witchcraft was the cause of the illness. Indeed, just like Tituba imagined, when Mister Hale arrived to examine Betty’s condition, he tries to question everybody including Abigail and the answers Parris gives on what he saw make Abigail’s testimony bad and not believable. While this was happening, Tituba hid outside the room and listened to what was going on. Suddenly, she had Abigail mention her name and Parris telling Ann Putnam to bring her inside the room to be questioned. In hearing this, she ran to the kitchen so that Ann Putnam does not find out that she was listening to them this whole