Members of Parris household all managed to survive the entire episode including Tituba, who was released from jail a year later, when the slaveowner Parris paid her prison fees and sold her.
Sarah Osborne died in prison in May and Sarah Good was executed on July 19 along with four other women. "The account she, since gives of it, is that her master did beat her and otherwise abuse her, to make her confess and accuse, such as the called her 'sister-witches' and that whatever she said by way of confessing or accusing others, was the effect of such usage." įurther accusations against many others emerged from the Parris household (and others) and eventually led to the imprisonment of hundreds and the deaths of more than 20 in 1692. Tituba was interrogated last and was the only of the three women to offer a full and elaborate confession against herself and point the finger of blame at the other two women: "Sarah Good and Osbourne would have me hurt the children." According to an investigation by Robert Calef that began soon after the trials, Tituba later recanted her confession as forced and claimed abuse from the slaveowner Parris: But Hathorne said to her, "Sarah Good said that it was you that hurt the children." According to the transcript, this is a distortion of what Sarah Good had said, as she had only vaguely referred to the others without naming them, in a way that was only intended to deflect blame from herself. Next, Hathorne interrogated Sarah Osbourne, who claimed not to know Sarah Good or even her full name.
"What do I know, you bring others here and now you charge me with it," Sarah Good responded. why do you thus torment these poor children?" Hathorne asked. and they all did look upon her" and claimed her spectre tormented them. Judge John Hathorne directed all "the child look upon her and see if this were the person that hurt them . Sarah Good was the first interrogated and held to her innocence. The three women were questioned separately but were aware of each other and, in a classic prisoner's dilemma, they were turned against each other. Tituba was part of a group of three women-with Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne-who was the first to be arrested, on February 29, 1692, under the accusation that their spectres (ghosts) were afflicting the young girls in Parris' household. In early 1692, Abigail Williams was living with her relative, Betty Parris' father, the village pastor Samuel Parris, along with his two slaves and John Indian. 1681, date of death unknown) was an 11- or 12-year-old girl who, along with nine-year-old Betty Parris, was among the first of the children to falsely accuse their neighbors of witchcraft in 1692 these accusations eventually led to the Salem witch trials.
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