Sarah Osborne

it must be witchcraft. These same actions happened to her cousin, Elizabeth Parris, and was one of the first accusers of the trials along with Abigail. The accusations of Elizabeth and Abigail led to the arrest of Tituba, her uncle’s slave, Sarah Good, and Sarah…

The Progression of the Salem Witch Trials The play The Crucible, by Arthur Miller was written in 1952. He was born in Harlem, New York in 1915. His family lost almost everything during the Wall Street Crash in 1929. After graduating high school, he worked odd jobs to get enough money to attend the University of Michigan. For a student paper, he finished his first play called No Villain. The Tony-Award Winning The Crucible may have been one of the reasons why Arthur came under the House of…

The Salem Witch Trials began in 1692 and were known as one of the worst outbreaks to happen in New England, due to the fact that Salem magistrates jailed and executed more people compared to any other witchcraft trial in New England. Religion and gender both played a huge role during the Salem Witch Trials in the seventeenth century, as religion was one of the major driving forces behind the trials as Samuel Parris’ sermons about the devil made people paranoid and helped spreading the…

During questioning, Tituba eventually confessed, naming four other witches, Good, Osborne and two others she did not know. Tituba described to the investigators that the devil was a tall man in a black suit who had a yellow bird, and carried a book, which he urged Tituba to sign. She stated that there was nine marks on the book, two by Good and Osborne. Tituba also confessed to trying to kill, Parris and Williams. Tituba’s confession affected the outcome of the witch…

“One of the oddest and saddest periods of American history began in late January 1692 in Salem Village, Massachusetts.”(2) Over 155 men and women were accused and jailed of witchcraft, 5 of these people died in jail, 19 men and women were hanged, and one man was crushed to death. Salem was not the only colony that was witch crazed; however, it had the most deaths and accusations in 1692. In the year 1692, the colonists of Massachusetts were opposed to outsiders and newcomers, this caused for…

places where witchcraft was popular was in Salem, Massachusetts. Witchcraft accusations started when people started acting like they were possessed. On February 29, three women were charged with witchcraft. These women include Sarah Good, Bridget Bishop, and Sarah Osborne. These woman were accused because Betty Parris, the minister’s daughter, was in a trance. When she wouldn't stop screaming and growling, the people of Salem knew something was wrong. Soon, Betty's cousin Abigail Williams…

Tituba stated that a man and varies animals had appeared and forced her to hurt the children. She admitted that the devil had made her do witchcraft. Tituba also said “man that is very strong & these two women, Good and Osborne but I am sorry.” Tituba accused Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne of also participating in witchcraft. Confessing to being a witch was what Tituba knew what was best for her. Ttuba, being a salve, did not have many rights. When she was first accused of being a witch, she…

witchcraft buzzed through the village and accusations began to fly. The first three ladies to be pointed out as witches were: Tituba (Parris’ Caribbean slave), Sarah Good (a homeless beggar), and Sarah Osborne (an elderly woman who rarely attended church) (Blumburg). The three outcasts were hunted down and interoggatedinterrogated. Good and Osborne both tried to claim innocent while Tituba admitted she was doing work for the devil. Tituba also claimed that there were several other witches…

they had previously not mentioned, as the cause of their afflictions and promptly named three women, Tituba, Sarah Osborne, and Sarah Good. All three women were easy scapegoats for the girls, as they were social outcasts in some form or another. Tituba was Native American or African American, and had baked the witch cake which first and foremost implicated her in witchcraft. Sarah Osborne was an elderly and ill woman. Her…

three others: Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba, Samuel Parris’ slave. The girls claimed that Tituba tried to bake a witch cake made of children’s urine, rye, and ashes. She fed it to their dog in hopes that the dog would point out any other witches, but instead it became sick and vomited. She, at first, denied any use of magic, but then succumbed to confessing. She admitted that the devil appeared in a man shape and had asked her and four other women, including Good and Osborne, to serve…