Tituba

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 out there with the same goal she…

is visited by two men, Giles Corey, believes that the girls were just acting out, and John Proctor, Abigail’s former lover. The parents of the two girls believe that Satan has possessed them. Abigail claims that her uncle’s slave, Tituba, is working with the devil. Tituba falsely confesses to working with Satan after getting a brutal whipping. Amazed by their newfound influence,…

When Abigail is being questioned about doing witchcraft she says Tituba the slave from Barbados “sends her spirit on me in church; she makes me laugh at prayer”(187) and “she makes me drink blood”(187). Abigail is blaming her mistakes on Tituba in hopes of avoiding punishment alike people now in days who are willing to do all it takes to get what they want even if it means risking others’ life. After being blamed by Abigail, Tituba is obliged to lie about seeing the devil. The Barbados slave is…

Kayna Emory and Jessica McKee The Crucible Movie Review 6/5/18 In 1692, the British-American colonies had only begun to establish themselves and set-up successful governments. The Massachusetts colony, for example, founded itself around the principles of the Mayflower Compact. This particular settlement was a refuge for Puritan’s looking to separate themselves from the Anglican church. With religion playing such a major role in their society, it was natural that their government would be…

Men, women, two dogs, and even a four year old girl were accused of practicing witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. Some people were convicted and hung, while one person was even sentenced to death by stone. Many people were sent to jail to await their trials, so many that the jails soon became crowded. The lives of many people in the town of Salem were affected by the trials when about 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft, nineteen people were hung and one person was…

When it comes to folktales and scary legends people tend to not believe in them now a day. Back in the ancient time people had the belief of witchcraft. The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. Although it is believed that the witch hunt of 1692 started in Salem Village, in reality it first occurred in Charlestown. First of all, the witch hunt of 1692 started long ago in…

young girls in the community began to display similar symptoms, including Ann Putnam Jr., Mercy Lewis, Elizabeth Hubbard, Mary Walcott and Mary Warren. In late February, arrest warrants were issued for the Parris’ slave, Tituba, along…

near witchcraft and turn away from God, everyone will suffer God’s wrath. Rev. Parris believes that his slave Tituba is one of the major causes of the scare of witchcraft in the town. He says,”I may whip Tituba 100 times, but she still defies my word and goes to do her own thing. I saw her and a group of children performing an outlandish procedure in the woods. I immediately thought that Tituba had influenced the children to join her in demonic practices. O, that lonesome soul filled with demons…

being a witch because of the testimony of a young girl: “Tituba: I don't compact with no Devil! Parris: You will confess yourself or I will take you out and whip you to your death, Tituba! Putnam: This woman must be hanged! She must be taken and hanged! Tituba, terrified, falls to her knees: No, no, don't hang Tituba! I tell him I don't desire to work for him, sir”(Miller 44). In this scene, Parris and Putnam, driven by panic, threaten Tituba until she feels like she has no choice but to…

According to James Davidson, Tituba exclaimed that there were four women and a man who threatened her if she did not comply with their malicious actions. Considering that Tituba was a slave and an outsider, she made for a great target among the villagers. When Tituba couldn 't identify a person involved with witchcraft it was enough to put the whole village of Salem on edge. Consequently, the court force Tituba to name names, thus adding more fuel to the fire. She confessed…