How Did Tituba Salem Witch Trials

were controlled by God and humans had no access to ritual intervention. The Protestants attacked the use of magic, whether in the Church or outside of it. The Church of England did not want to deal with magic either and in 1559 banned the use of “charms, sorcery, enchantments, invocations, circles, witchcrafts, soothsaying, or any such like crafts or imaginations,” With so many churches and leaders turning against the use of magic, it was inevitable that it would trigger violence and struggle in the events that occurred in Salem, Massachusetts. There will always be differences between the poor and the wealthy. Today, we have protested to try and make the world a bit more equal, but that was not the case during The Salem Witch Trials. It was …show more content…
One theory is that Samuel Parris’ slaves brought provocative tales with them from their homelands that Tituba used to “inflame” the girl’s imagination. January 15, 1692, Salem Village. A slave by the name of Tituba drifts off to sleep and said she saw a tall, darkly clad, white-haired man standing by her. He planned to kill the Samuel Parris’ children and that she would help him or he would kill her also. She refused this figure on multiple occasions. Through fear, Tituba confessed to “having a contract with the Devil” and other questions. By contradicting herself, by first saying she wasn’t a witch then exclaiming she was a witch, she pleased listeners by going into detailed answers about her services to the Devil. She had also accused Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne as being witches as well. With her confession the town set out to find from the possessed who the other witches were. There are theories that Tituba only confessed to these crimes after being beaten by her master, the Reverend Samuel Parris. So, if not for those conditions would she have really confessed to being a witch? If not, we may have never heard of this woman at