Originally three girls were accused of being witches, and this is considered to be sexist as it implied that only females would fall for the devil’s tricks which was parallel to the Adam and Eve story about how Eve gets convinced by the devil to eat the fruit and then she tempts the Adam who was a male. But on the other side, majority of these accusers were females who mostly targeted other females. For instance, Ray says, “Lawson announced that Abigail Williams had witnessed a gathering of witches near Parris’s house, where they celebrated the devil’s sacrament with ‘Red Bread and Red Drink’” (Ray [Satan’s War] 17). And then within the next day Mercy Lewis, also a female, states how she saw the devil and how it tried to tempt her to take his sacrament. Martha Corey and Rebecca Nurse who were two covenanted members who were also accused of witchcraft. Only was it based on all the girl’s accusation and reports did the Reverend Deodat Lawson come to the conclusion that not was the church being attacked, but instead it was a full fledged assault on the Puritans in the village by
Originally three girls were accused of being witches, and this is considered to be sexist as it implied that only females would fall for the devil’s tricks which was parallel to the Adam and Eve story about how Eve gets convinced by the devil to eat the fruit and then she tempts the Adam who was a male. But on the other side, majority of these accusers were females who mostly targeted other females. For instance, Ray says, “Lawson announced that Abigail Williams had witnessed a gathering of witches near Parris’s house, where they celebrated the devil’s sacrament with ‘Red Bread and Red Drink’” (Ray [Satan’s War] 17). And then within the next day Mercy Lewis, also a female, states how she saw the devil and how it tried to tempt her to take his sacrament. Martha Corey and Rebecca Nurse who were two covenanted members who were also accused of witchcraft. Only was it based on all the girl’s accusation and reports did the Reverend Deodat Lawson come to the conclusion that not was the church being attacked, but instead it was a full fledged assault on the Puritans in the village by