It was not long before Betty Parris, daughter of Reverend Samuel Parris and Abigail Williams, Reverend Parris’ niece, started screaming and writhing only to draw attention to the people of the town. It all started on one exceptionally cold winter night. Abigail, Betty, and a few other girls gathered around a fire in a dimly lit kitchen. The candles flickered and cast shadows on the pale walls. Tituba, Parris’s slave, tends a cauldron over the large, bright fire as she speaks. She tells the tales of witches and demons while holding a small rosary in one hand. All the girls are intently listening and watching Tituba as she exits the kitchen. Tituba returns with a bowl and eggs and signals the girls to walk toward her. The egg yolk spills into the bowl as Tituba nervously cracks the egg. Their eyes widen at the sight of blood. The girls nervously watch Tituba as she takes the another egg and cracks it. Like the last one, there is a pool of red blood. Abigail and Betty gasp fearfully while the other girls start to walk away from Tituba, knocking over the bowl out of her hands. The girls do not stop to look back at what they did and quickly leave …show more content…
Geography neatly separated the supporters and opposers. For instance, the east was anti-Parris while the west was pro-Parris. People of Salem noticed there was greater support for the victims of witchcraft as the number of trials increased. During these trials, many assumed that the witches cast spells upon them to make them suffer. Yet, their assumptions all lie in the varying conception of magic. Magic was almost always related to a relationship with the Devil, which made it inherently evil. Moreover, the witches gained their power by worshipping Satan. By doing his bidding on Earth, he in turn granted them with extraordinary powers. Moreover, witchcraft does not work like anything we thought it did