" Tituba told the whole court about her pact with the Devil and the type of wonderful things he gave her in return for her service and loyalty to him. Then, after she was done telling her story, when the magistrate asked her who she had seen doing the witchcraft, Tituba says, "Goody Osborn and Sarah Good and I do not know who the other were. Sarah Good and Osborn would have me hurt the children but I would not . . . “ So according to Tituba there were still witches out there bewitching their innocent children. After Tituba's confession, the entire community of Salem increased their efforts to find the witches who were bringing such horrible events to their village. The children still were not able to come up with names for their perpetrators until a little thirteen-year-old girl, Ann Putnam, cried out the name of Martha Corey. Corey, like Osborne, was not poor at all. While she was being tried, Martha Corey had the audacity to laugh at questions presented to her. She acted naive and said she did not even know if there were any witches in New England She also labeled herself as a "Gospel-woman." Her presence and attitude during the trial led many to believe that she was in fact guilty of practicing witchcraft.

From this point on, after Ann Putnam's accusation, the females of Salem showed no hesitation in naming the witches who had brought this upon them. The number of women accused was monumental, and the court had very little time to examine each accusation thoroughly. Soon, anyone who was called a witch was jailed, whether it was a man, woman, child, or adult. Even Dorcas Good, the four-year-old daughter of Sarah Good was accused and thrown into jail; a four-year-old child who was barely old enough to make coherent sentences, was convicted of being a witch and "taking supernatural revenge on the possessed for taking away her parents." This is how paranoid the people of Salem had become. Everyone jumped at the mention of a witch. They were afraid that they would be the next people to become a possessed victim of their mysterious black magic. The villagers went from the four-year-old girl to seventy-one-year-old Rebecca Nurse followed by forty-seven-year-old Elizabeth Proctor. Both of these women who were from very wealthy, prosperous homes, were imprisoned because people thought Rebecca Nurse's mother and Proctor's grandmother practiced black magic when they were alive. At this point, anyone who was a family member of an accused witch was most likely to wind up in jail also.

y recommended that Parris' slaves, Tituba and John Indian should work a spell to try to find the culprits. Even after trying this solution the girls' condition worsened, and the people responsible still had not been found. The girls began to see hazy shadows and believed that these shadows were of the people who had done this. After more and more children became victims of this, the hunting for the witches who were to blame for the girls' sickness began to get more serious.

The Puritan’s goal in life was to "purify the organization of their church" and to rid it of any sign of the Devil. By accusing so many people of being witches, they thought they were just purifying the church and their community. Most of the time, credibility of an accusation was not checked thoroughly, instead the person accused was simply locked up in jail until their trial time came. Even then, if they did not confess to being guilty they were punished and sometimes even killed. Although the law is innocent until proven guilty, and had been practiced before the trials, in the case of the witchcraft trials, the accused witches were guilty until proven innocent. Not many were given the chance to prove themselves to be innocent.

He stopped short of calling the possessed girls liars but instead called them "Deamoniacks"

Some topics in this essay:
Witchcraft Trials, Justice Stoughton, Governor Phips, Martha Corey, Ann Putnam's, Salem Village, Master Parris', Salem Witchcraft, Local Salem, John Indian, witchcraft trials, salem witchcraft, innocent people, accused witches, people accused, people accused witches, reverend parris, people witches, black magic, martha corey, salem witchcraft trials, guilty form torture, possessed females,