On October 8, after 20 had been executed in the Salem witch hunt, Thomas Brattle wrote a letter denouncing the trials. This letter had great impact on Governor Phips, who ordered that faith in abstract and vague evidence would no longer be allowed in trials. At last Governor Phips discontinued the courts at Oyer and Terminer. On November 25, the General Court of the Colony fabricated the Superior Court to examine the remaining witchcraft cases, which would take place in May 1963. During theses trials no one was convicted.

On March 1, Magistrates John Hathorne and Jonathon Corwin investigated the three women in the courthouse in Salem Village. Tituba confessed to pursuing black magic. Over the next few weeks, other villagers came forward and testified that they too had been traumatized by or had seen strange phantoms of some of the village members. As the witch hunting prolonged, charges were made toward many different people. Frequently unmasked were women whose behavior was somehow disturbing to the social order and formalities of the time. Some of the accused had records of unlawful pastimes, including witchery, but others were faithful churchgoers and people of high status in society.

er “sometimes like a hog and sometimes like a great dog.” Furthermore, Tituba certified that there was a collaboration of witches at work in Salem.

From Mid-March to early April, Martha Corey, Rebecca Nurse, Elizabeth Proctor, and Sarah Cloyce were accused of w

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