Tituba's Hallucinations During The Salem Witch Trials

The girls began to experience unusual fits and confusion. Sometimes they would throw their arms up as if they could fly, they would cover their ears and scream during prayer, or they would fall to the floor screaming and twitching. They also experienced other symptoms as well, such as temporary hearing and sight loss; loss of memory, where they could not remember what had happened during the fits; and hallucinations. Some of their hallucinations involved demons torturing them with pinching and biting. They blamed these fits on Tituba saying that she had put them under a spell. The community quickly turned their attention toward Reverend Parris since Tituba was his servant. Since his position in the community was already threatened the

When they first began their fits they refused to reveal who the witch was, but when they did the first person they accused was Tituba. The people did not find it hard to believe that Tituba was a witch because she had earlier said that she believed in witchcraft. In February the girls accused two more women of witchcraft, Sarah Osburn and Sarah Good. Osburn and Good were two older women that no one in the village seemed to like very much so it wasn’t hard for the villagers to believe they were witches as well. Sarah Good was a woman who aggressively begged for food and if she was refused she would turn away cursing and Sarah Osburn created scandal after her husband died by purchasing an Irish immigrant and living with him as husband and wife before getting

Everyone then began to look at each other with fear and distrust. The girls continued to accuse more women during the spring. People were accusing their enemies, their neighbors, and even their own family members. In April, Mary Warren, one of the afflicted girls had enough with the lying. She told the court that they were all lying and faking their behavior. The others turned on her and accused her of witchcraft. When she was arrested, she became scared, changed her story and said that they were not lying, and she was released from