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Narrator: Imagine a village
consumed by a witch hunt.
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The things that the people
of salem endured in 1692
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Were totally horrific.
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If you live in a society
that believes in witchcraft,
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That believes that witchcraft
and bewitchment are real,
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Then it is.
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-Kill her!
-Kill the witch!
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Narrator: Imagine the terror
of knowing the sentence
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For witchcraft is death.
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Woman:
I'm not a witch. I am innocent.
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Howe: A whole community who are
educated and thoughtful
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Believe themselves to be doing
the absolute right thing.
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We offer this witch
for your judgment,
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Brock: People who were not
fundamentally bad
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Thought that this was
their duty.
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I'm not a witch. No, no.
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That makes it
all the more horrific.
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Man: To keep us,
your humble servants,
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The devil from our midst.
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Narrator:
The witch hunt is on.
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It's a brutally cold night
in January.
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Abigail williams
and betty parris
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Are trying to find
imaginative ways
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To pass the time.
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As it gets later, they decide
to try to predict their futures
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With something called
a venus glass.
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They were trying to see who
would be their future husbands
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Who they might marry someday.
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Narrator: Though they know
that any kind of fortune-telling
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Is off-limits, the two young
girls can't resist consulting
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The cup to see if the shape
of the egg white
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Will reveal important clues
about their future husbands.
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Look, can you see?
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Supposedly the egg white
coalesced in the bottom
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Of the glass
in the shape of a coffin.
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Does that mean the man
you marry will die?
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Narrator:
The girls are horrified
by the disturbing results.
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In an environment where they
had been taught that
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Dabbling in any kind of magic,
any kind of occult activities,
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No matter how seemingly harmless
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Were really a way
of allowing the devil
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To enter into your soul.
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They would've been
terrified by this.
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Aronson:
You've done something forbidden,
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And then something weird
happened.
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And so you really feel like,
"what have I dabbled in,
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What door have I opened?"
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Narrator: They have heard
stories of demonic possession,
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But now abigail and betty
are terrified.
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Have they just sold
their souls to the devil?
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So here we are in salem,
massachusetts, in 1692.
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Salem in 1692 is actually
two different places.
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Salem town, which is on the
water, which is a port city,
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And salem village,
which is modern day danvers.
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Salem village was more remote
it was more outlying.
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They are surrounded on all sides
by wilderness.
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A wilderness
that is already peopled.
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And peopled by people who the
puritans would have considered
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To be devilish.
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Hill:
It was practically a war zone.
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There'd be places
not that far off
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That had been attacked.
By native americans.
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Coy:
The puritans in salem village
thought of native americans
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As agents of the devil.
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Howe: So there is a sort of
existential dread
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Attached to living on a frontier
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That is at the edge of that
which is unknown.
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Many people came there
with the idea
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Of creating a perfect community.
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Coy: They saw themselves
as a new jerusalem,
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As bringing the word of god into
the wilderness, into a land
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That they thought was really
the dominion of the devil.
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The puritans were hoping to
build an ideal utopian
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Community, a city on the hill.
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This was to be a new eden.
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What we find in the bible as
literal truth for the puritans
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Are a belief in witches
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And also a belief in the ending
of days -- the apocalypse.
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The second coming.
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Little:
The puritans are convinced of
their religious righteousness,
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All who disagree
with them are damned.
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It has a lot of connections
to a cult-like community.
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Howe: Sunday was the day of rest
after a very hard working week
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And the rest consisted of eight
hours of going to a meeting.
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I must warn you all,
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The devil's hostility
towards this church...
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Hill: They would divide it up,
men on one side,
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Women on the other,
and the children and servants
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And slaves slightly set back.
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...Cleansed and sworn
into god's kingdom.
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Hill:
It would be very, very cold,
it was completely unheated,
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But they were expected
to behave themselves in church.
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They were expected to listen
to the sermon.
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Narrator: To ensure people
paid attention,
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A member of the congregation
known as the tithing man
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Would poke people
with a stick.
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And presiding over the service
was salem village's minister,
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Samuel parris.
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Who the minister was was
of paramount importance.
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They'd had a series of
ministers who hadn't gone over
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Particularly well with the
congregation at salem village
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And in 1689,
the newest minister,
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Samuel parris, arrived.
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And it is imperative
that we keep our town.
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Howe: He was not initially
called to the church.
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He had a sort of mixed
and varied career,
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Including running a plantation
into the ground in barbados,
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Coming to boston and making
a hash of being a businessman,
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And then coming to salem village
where he immediately
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Made himself disagreeable
with the villagers.
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And I remind you
all only through grace
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Can one enter
god's kingdom.
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Brock: There was a faction
in salem village,
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Particularly the putnams,
who really liked samuel parris,
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Who thought he was
the right man for the job.
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Other important people
in salem village
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Didn't see him as
a uniter of the town,
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But rather someone
who would divide.
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Parris: There's sinfulness
everywhere in this village.
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Narrator: Samuel parris
lives in the church's
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Two-bedroom residence,
which he shares with his wife,
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Elizabeth, and the two girls
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Who had dabbled in
fortune-telling,
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His niece and maid,
abigail williams,
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And his daughter, betty.
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Howe: After eight hours
of listening to sermonizing,
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Then it was time to go home
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And read the bible
together as a family.
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So it was a really full day.
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Christ sits at god's right hand
and intercedes
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For sinful humanity.
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Brock: Samuel parris's household
would not have been
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One of a lot of light
and a lot of joy.
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They would have spent hours
poring over scripture
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By the fireside.
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You can imagine these girls
listening to samuel parris
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Practice his hellfire
and brimstone sermons.
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There was a lot
of emphasis on the idea
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That women in particular
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Were susceptible to
the wiles of satan.
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For the lord, your god,
here it is...For you.
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Betty?
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What's the matter?
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See to her, will you?
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Narrator: Parris asks
his enslaved servant,
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Tituba, to help betty.
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Aronson: Betty began exhibiting
strange symptoms.
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Hill: The first symptoms were of
crawling under chairs
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And talking in
a disconnected way,
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And nobody being able
to figure out why.
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I met with the village
committee today
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On not receiving
my firewood.
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Little: I think betty parris
and abigail williams
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Were undoubtedly
aware of the social tensions
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That were swirling in salem
at the time.
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One can imagine
the conversations
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Around the dinner table
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That may have fed
into their fears
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That were manifested
in their own affliction.
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Narrator: What terrible sickness
has been unleashed
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In the minister's household?
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Once samuel parris's
daughter, betty,
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Began to exhibit the symptoms
of these violent fits,
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It soon spread to another member
of the parris household,
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Abigail williams.
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Betty. Betty.
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I think the attention
that the girls were able
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To receive and channel
was probably intoxicating.
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Narrator: The madness is about
to engulf salem
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In a wave of paranoia
and terror.
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Narrator:
Two girls in salem village,
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Abigail williams
and betty parris,
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Have started to suffer
violent unexplained fits
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After secretly experimenting
with fortune-telling.
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The town's minister,
samuel parris, is desperate
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To understand the cause
of their illness.
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Is that sore?
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Coy: Parris called upon
william griggs,
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The local physician, to come
and try to diagnose
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Whether there was
an underlying physical cause.
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Does that hurt at all?
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Unsurprisingly,
the doctor can't find anything
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Physically wrong with betty
or with abigail.
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Narrator: Instead of diagnosing
a physical cause, the doctor
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Suggests something
far more disturbing.
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I'm sorry, but I think
she's under the influence
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Of an evil hand.
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Meaning that he suspected
bewitchment.
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Samuel parris's initial
reaction was to be patient
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In the face of god's punishments
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And in the face of adversity,
and rather to pray for guidance.
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Please deliver us from
the evil forces that have...
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The belief in witchcraft
was sanctioned by
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The greatest minds of the age,
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Educated scholars
from cambridge and harvard
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And the greatest universities
taught that witchcraft was real.
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Howe:
When his daughter and servant
abigail fell ill, samuel parris
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Would have rightly
looked at himself
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And wondered if this was
some kind of mark
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Against the state
of his own soul.
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The girls' conditions
are getting worse,
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The fits more extreme.
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Narrator: Around this time,
samuel parris is visited
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By a local landowner,
thomas putnam,
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Who brings with him his
daughter, ann jr.,
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And servant, mercy lewis.
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Parris reveals
the terrifying nightmare
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That his family is enduring.
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Samuel parris and his wife
tried all the herbal remedies
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They knew about, but nothing
made any difference.
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The community knows
it's in your house.
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Coy: Nothing happened
by coincidence.
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If your child was having fits
or was ill,
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You sought the reason for that,
and that reason was rooted
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In relationships
within the community.
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Who is it that wishes me
and my family harm
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And is the sort of person
who would turn to the devil?
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Excuse me.
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In the midst of all of this
uncertainty and anxieties,
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A local beggar woman, sarah
good, shows up begging for food.
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I'm very, very sorry to have
knocked on your door,
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But I find myself
in a very difficult time
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With no food or clothing
for my daughter.
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You haven't been seen in church
in many months.
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She says she hasn't gone
for want of clothes.
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Howe:
What that means is not "I didn't
have something cute to wear."
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It means that she's in rags.
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I cannot pay for it.
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So she is supported by
depending on
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The kindness of her neighbors,
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Which, of course,
in this time period,
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Most people don't have
much extra to go around.
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Okay, dorothy, let's go.
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Coy: She went away muttering
under her breath.
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For the people of salem
who believed in witchcraft,
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They would have seen this
as potentially a curse
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That she was muttering.
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Abby!
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In the aftermath of her visit,
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The violent fits they're going
through intensify and worsen.
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My head, it hurts!
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Initially, samuel parris
tried to keep the incidents
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That were going on
in his home quiet.
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But rumors eventually spread
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Through the tight-knit
community.
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Brock: Salem village had about
600 inhabitants.
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Close quarters.
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Everyone is seeing
each other at the tavern,
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At the church meeting house,
in the shops, in the streets.
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So when abigail and betty start
to manifest their symptoms
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Of affliction, the word travels
very, very quickly.
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In my opinion, we have to find
out who's hurting the children.
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Coy: Mary sibley, in an attempt
to help, approached tituba,
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The enslaved woman that parris
had brought from barbados
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When he came to salem village.
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Narrator: Mary sibley suggests
using a type of folk magic
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She believes will protect
the children from witchcraft.
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Coy: Despite the fact that
she was a devout woman
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And a puritan,
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She was also someone
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Who dabbled in these kind of
occult activities.
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This was quite common.
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People in England often
practiced these kind of
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Folk magic, things
like forms of divination,
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Healing spells and charms,
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And all of these kind
of folk beliefs
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Came to the new world
with these colonists
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And rooted themselves
in these puritan communities.
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Callow: There's a very fine line
between what is folk magic
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And harmful magic,
the kind of harmful magic
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That comes directly
from the devil.
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This is at the crux
of the problem
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Of the young women in salem.
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Narrator: Folk magic practices
were a common way
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To try and protect yourself
from the evils of witchcraft.
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But there was always a question
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As to what would be
considered acceptable
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And what would be seen
as demonic.
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Because of this, tituba waits
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Until the parrises
are out of sight
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Before attempting the remedy
recommended by mary sibley,
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A form of counter magic
known as a witch cake.
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What are you doing?
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I'm making a very
special cake
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That's gonna make
the both of you feel better.
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A witch cake was a traditional
english remedy for witchcraft.
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Howe: To make a witch cake
you take some rye meal,
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You collect urine
from the afflicted girls,
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Mix it together
into like a paste,
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Bake it into a biscuit, and then
feed the biscuit to the dog.
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Once we bake this,
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It will tell us everything
that we need to know.
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There are two ways
that they thought
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That this might free the girls
from bewitchment,
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One thought was that perhaps
it would cause the bewitchment
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To travel out of the bodies
of the girls
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And into the body of the dog.
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Another way it might work
was it was believed
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That the act
of bewitching someone
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Created a kind of
correspondence relationship
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Between the witcher
and the witchee.
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So the munching up of the cake
by the dog would cause
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The witch's body
to feel munched up
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And she would then
release the children.
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Let's bake this.
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Parris: What have you done?!
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You brought this into my home!
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Hill:
When parris found out about it,
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He went incandescent.
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He is incensed.
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Who else knows about this?!
Who?!
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He even intimates that this act
was skating right up
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To the line
of the crime of witchcraft.
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You know what you've done?
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You brought the devil
upon my home.
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He called this
going to the devil
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For help against the devil.
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Accounts from the time say that
he even savagely beat tituba.
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Narrator: Tituba's attempt
to help the girls
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Will have severe
and tragic consequences.
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When the girls first started
to perform their afflictions,
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They didn't name anyone.
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Narrator: That will suddenly
change when the girls begin to
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Have visions of the dark
forces attacking them.
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The girls begin to see specters.
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Narrator: These specters are
ghostly versions of the witch,
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Who can attack
their victim from afar.
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betty.
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Parris kept asking,
"who is it that afflicts you?
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Who hurt you?"
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Ti-tituba. Tituba hurt us.
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They named tituba, the woman
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Who had been part of their lives
really since they can remember.
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Narrator: Why have the girls
turned on tituba,
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And what will happen
to the devoted servant now?
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Narrator:
Two girls in salem village
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Are believed to be
under attack from witchcraft.
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Now, they have named
their enslaved servant,
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Tituba, as the cause.
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Brock: Samuel parris calls
to his household
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A number of pre-eminent
thinkers in salem village
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And also some
from the surrounding areas.
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Of course, I am not only
concerned
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For the girls' welfare
but for my own.
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Narrator: Among the experts
that parris calls in
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Are magistrate john hathorne,
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Fellow minister nicholas noyes,
and thomas putnam.
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I could quickly find myself
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Out of the parsonage
if it was known
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That satan has moved in.
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Samuel's concerns are valid
as I share them myself.
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Narrator: Parris still clings
to the hope
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That there might be some natural
cause for the girls' condition.
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What remedies have been tried?
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For two months, we've tried one
home remedy after another.
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Brock: People often assume that
the puritans automatically
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Jumped to the devil
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Being behind everything,
but that's not the case.
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They actually were interested
in seeing if there were natural
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Causes behind the affliction
symptoms of the young girls.
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But the men who came
and observed abigail and betty
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Pretty quickly
came to the conclusion
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That they were being bewitched.
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Do we know what might have
given rise to their condition?
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Narrator: When parris reveals
that the girls have named tituba
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As the source of their ailments,
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The men decide to
question her.
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Howe: Tituba's ethnicity almost
certainly was carib indian.
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She looked different
from the english colonists
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That she was forced
to live among.
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And even stranger...
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Although she was
a family intimate,
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The fact of her difference
was something
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That was never forgotten.
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They seemed to know
tituba's whereabouts
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And what she does even when
she is nowhere in their sight.
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Coy: As an enslaved woman,
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Tituba is in an extremely
precarious position.
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Her response seems to be
to try to placate the people
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Who are asking her questions.
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Your master tells us that
you have been practicing magic.
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Tituba claims
that her mistress on barbados
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Had actually been a witch
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And had actually
taught her the test.
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She taught you what?
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Hill: What comes
out very much about tituba
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Is that she was always
trying to please.
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Narrator: Tituba's attempt
to cooperate
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Only leads to more trouble.
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What begins as folk magic
with totally benevolent purposes
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Can very quickly
become seen as witchcraft.
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My advice is patience,
regular fasting, and prayer.
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Narrator: Rather than follow
this advice,
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Parris decides to take matters
into his own hands.
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Why are you doing this?
Tell me.
396
00:22:35,955 --> 00:22:38,489
Convinced that all of the
family's problems can be solved
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If tituba admits
to being a witch.
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Parris tries to beat
the confession from her.
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00:22:44,330 --> 00:22:45,796
But tituba stands firm.
400
00:22:45,898 --> 00:22:48,132
Tell me!
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00:22:49,569 --> 00:22:52,136
Then without warning,
the terror begins to spread
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00:22:52,238 --> 00:22:53,504
Throughout salem village.
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00:22:53,606 --> 00:22:54,905
Several other young girls
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00:22:55,007 --> 00:22:57,908
Start to show signs of attack
by witchcraft.
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00:22:58,010 --> 00:22:59,977
Ann, what's wrong?
406
00:23:00,079 --> 00:23:05,449
First ann putnam jr.,
the daughter of thomas putnam.
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00:23:05,551 --> 00:23:10,688
Also in the putnam household
is 19-year-old mercy lewis.
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00:23:10,790 --> 00:23:14,392
Mercy lewis was a survivor
from the maine frontier.
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She had been orphaned
at a young age
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00:23:16,262 --> 00:23:18,162
And she'd seen a lot
of traumatic events,
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00:23:18,264 --> 00:23:20,898
And these kind of fears
and anxieties and traumas
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Could have played a role in the
fits that she was experiencing.
413
00:23:24,237 --> 00:23:26,604
Narrator: Less than a mile away,
mary walcott
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Also begins to writhe,
choke, and babble.
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Brock: There is particularly
among these young girls in salem
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A real susceptibility
to these ideas.
417
00:23:37,316 --> 00:23:40,117
And so this spreads
like wildfire.
418
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When they hear that these things
have happened to the two girls
419
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In the house of the minister,
then why would they not think
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That witches could come
and afflict them?
421
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It's not mutually exclusive
that these girls
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Could both believe deeply
that they had been bewitched
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00:23:59,172 --> 00:24:02,273
And that they reveled
in the newfound power
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00:24:02,375 --> 00:24:04,475
That this gave them.
425
00:24:04,577 --> 00:24:06,310
Narrator: Meanwhile, the girls
in the parsonage
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Continue to be attacked
by tituba's specter.
427
00:24:15,021 --> 00:24:18,222
They were just contorted
in extraordinary postures
428
00:24:18,324 --> 00:24:21,992
That looked to say they must be
incredibly painful.
429
00:24:22,094 --> 00:24:25,763
-leave them alone.
430
00:24:33,072 --> 00:24:35,539
Narrator: Parris asks abigail
if there is anyone else
431
00:24:35,641 --> 00:24:38,709
She can see besides tituba.
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00:24:38,811 --> 00:24:40,211
Two.
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00:24:40,313 --> 00:24:43,047
Two women.
Who is it?
434
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She furnishes two names
which are really pivotal.
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00:24:46,752 --> 00:24:50,688
Sarah good.
Who else?
436
00:24:50,790 --> 00:24:52,623
Sarah osborne.
437
00:24:52,725 --> 00:24:55,493
Both of these women are straight
438
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Out of central casting
for witchcraft.
439
00:25:02,301 --> 00:25:04,401
Narrator: The two women
named by the girls
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00:25:04,504 --> 00:25:08,138
Fit the stereotypical image
of a witch.
441
00:25:08,207 --> 00:25:11,775
Sarah good has been accused
of being a witch before,
442
00:25:11,878 --> 00:25:15,312
She has an intensely
quarrelsome reputation.
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00:25:15,414 --> 00:25:19,316
Sarah osborne, as well, is
known to have a slippery tongue.
444
00:25:19,418 --> 00:25:21,819
Narrator: Now that the girls
have named their tormentors,
445
00:25:21,921 --> 00:25:24,288
Four village leaders
led by thomas putnam
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Decide to take action.
447
00:25:26,859 --> 00:25:30,094
Coy: Thomas putnam along with
several of his associates
448
00:25:30,196 --> 00:25:32,763
Lodged formal complaints
against tituba,
449
00:25:32,865 --> 00:25:36,000
Sarah good, and sarah osborne.
450
00:25:38,070 --> 00:25:40,638
Narrator: The women will all be
arrested, setting in motion
451
00:25:40,740 --> 00:25:44,475
A wave of panic that will shake
salem to its core.
452
00:25:55,621 --> 00:25:57,588
Ann!
Narrator:
The terrifying afflictions
453
00:25:57,690 --> 00:25:59,690
That began in
the parris's parsonage
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Have spread to others
in salem village.
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When three women are named
456
00:26:04,030 --> 00:26:07,331
As the cause,
they are immediately arrested.
457
00:26:17,043 --> 00:26:19,710
Salem village is in uproar.
458
00:26:19,812 --> 00:26:24,248
Everyone is desperate to tituba,
sarah good, and sarah osborne
459
00:26:24,350 --> 00:26:28,419
Paraded through town in shackles
as they are led to their fate.
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00:26:32,158 --> 00:26:34,091
Brock:
An examination had to take place
461
00:26:34,193 --> 00:26:38,062
To see whether or not
these initially accused witches
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00:26:38,164 --> 00:26:42,600
Had enough evidence against them
to warrant a grand jury trial.
463
00:26:42,702 --> 00:26:44,902
Narrator: Witchcraft is
a recognized crime
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And the penalty is death
by hanging.
465
00:26:47,807 --> 00:26:50,040
Howe: In a typical witch trial
any sort of examination
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00:26:50,142 --> 00:26:53,177
Would have been a small
and private affair.
467
00:26:53,279 --> 00:26:57,514
Salem already is different
in that regard.
468
00:26:57,617 --> 00:26:59,416
Word has been spreading
for weeks
469
00:26:59,518 --> 00:27:02,319
About the mysterious afflictions
of the little girls.
470
00:27:02,421 --> 00:27:05,122
People have heard
rumors about this.
471
00:27:05,224 --> 00:27:08,092
Rumors travel quickly then
as they do now..
472
00:27:08,194 --> 00:27:11,595
So people came
from pretty far away.
473
00:27:11,731 --> 00:27:13,263
People come from as far
as boston
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00:27:13,366 --> 00:27:14,365
To see the examinations,
475
00:27:14,467 --> 00:27:18,435
They take on a circus-like
atmosphere.
476
00:27:18,537 --> 00:27:21,505
This helps really feed
the sense of anxiety
477
00:27:21,607 --> 00:27:23,874
And chaos within the village
at that time,
478
00:27:23,976 --> 00:27:26,243
But it also feeds
the rumor mill.
479
00:27:26,345 --> 00:27:29,613
Brock:
I think that's important to
understand the public spectacle
480
00:27:29,715 --> 00:27:31,148
Because it helps us
to understand
481
00:27:31,250 --> 00:27:34,985
Why the community of otherwise
intensely intelligent,
482
00:27:35,087 --> 00:27:39,289
Intensely devoted, caring, good
people came to believe something
483
00:27:39,392 --> 00:27:44,628
That we now regard as so
fantastical and beyond belief.
484
00:27:44,730 --> 00:27:46,797
Narrator: The plan is to hold
the examinations
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00:27:46,899 --> 00:27:49,099
In the salem village tavern.
486
00:27:49,201 --> 00:27:51,735
It was quite a to-do getting
them there.
487
00:27:51,837 --> 00:27:55,272
Not so much tituba,
I think she went quietly.
488
00:27:55,374 --> 00:27:58,375
But sarah good kept
hitting out at people.
489
00:27:58,477 --> 00:28:01,178
She was a very aggressive
personality.
490
00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:06,784
Sarah osborne, I think,
just wasn't very well.
491
00:28:06,886 --> 00:28:09,753
Narrator: But when they arrive
at the tavern, it becomes clear
492
00:28:09,855 --> 00:28:11,522
That there are far
too many people
493
00:28:11,624 --> 00:28:13,257
To fit everyone inside.
494
00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:14,992
To the meeting house.
495
00:28:15,094 --> 00:28:17,227
Coy: So they move to the largest
building they have,
496
00:28:17,296 --> 00:28:18,696
The meeting house
where the puritans
497
00:28:18,798 --> 00:28:21,298
Would have held
their worship services.
498
00:28:25,938 --> 00:28:29,540
Brock: The two people presiding
over these early examinations
499
00:28:29,642 --> 00:28:31,575
Are john corwin
and john hathorne,
500
00:28:31,677 --> 00:28:34,044
And they are not lawyers.
501
00:28:34,146 --> 00:28:36,914
They are merchants
with an interest in the law
502
00:28:37,016 --> 00:28:39,450
Bring forward
sarah good, please.
503
00:28:39,552 --> 00:28:43,287
The room is jam-packed,
filled to capacity.
504
00:28:43,389 --> 00:28:45,889
You have
the frightened suspects.
505
00:28:45,991 --> 00:28:50,094
You have scores of their
neighbors and relations
506
00:28:50,196 --> 00:28:52,463
Along with the afflicted girls.
507
00:28:52,565 --> 00:28:55,432
The afflicted girls were present
508
00:28:55,534 --> 00:28:57,067
And this is kind of crucial
509
00:28:57,169 --> 00:29:00,537
Because the attention
that's being brought
510
00:29:00,639 --> 00:29:05,175
Changes the way
the afflicted girls behave.
511
00:29:05,277 --> 00:29:06,977
Are we ready?
Brock: Sarah good
512
00:29:07,079 --> 00:29:10,080
Has been accused of being
a witch before,
513
00:29:10,182 --> 00:29:13,250
She has an intensely
quarrelsome reputation.
514
00:29:13,352 --> 00:29:16,453
She's not a well-respected
member of the community.
515
00:29:16,555 --> 00:29:19,022
Coy: Hathorne, not an
experienced jurist,
516
00:29:19,125 --> 00:29:24,161
Seeks to trap these suspects
through leading questions.
517
00:29:24,263 --> 00:29:27,030
Sarah good.
518
00:29:27,133 --> 00:29:31,068
What spirits
are you familiar with?
519
00:29:31,170 --> 00:29:32,603
None.
520
00:29:32,705 --> 00:29:35,139
Hill: None of this assuming
somebody's innocent
521
00:29:35,241 --> 00:29:37,241
Until they're proven guilty
nonsense.
522
00:29:37,343 --> 00:29:41,178
He knows she's guilty, in his
mind, there's no question.
523
00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:45,082
When did you first
covenant with the devil?
524
00:29:45,184 --> 00:29:46,550
I have never.
525
00:29:49,054 --> 00:29:51,555
Do you not have a contract
with the devil?
526
00:29:53,392 --> 00:29:55,459
Narrator: Finally, after
several failed attempts
527
00:29:55,561 --> 00:29:56,693
To get a confession,
528
00:29:56,796 --> 00:29:59,830
Hathorne turns
to the afflicted girls.
529
00:29:59,932 --> 00:30:01,732
Is this the woman
that hurts you?
530
00:30:01,834 --> 00:30:03,634
Look at her.
531
00:30:07,740 --> 00:30:10,474
The girls' reaction is shocking.
532
00:30:10,576 --> 00:30:13,544
They're clearly manifesting
their pain and torture
533
00:30:13,646 --> 00:30:16,246
To the audience.
534
00:30:16,348 --> 00:30:19,516
Little: They probably weren't
legitimately afraid of the women
535
00:30:19,618 --> 00:30:21,518
That they were
accusing of witchcraft.
536
00:30:21,620 --> 00:30:24,655
You would expect that the witch
would turn all of her power
537
00:30:24,757 --> 00:30:27,791
Against you,
against the accuser.
538
00:30:27,893 --> 00:30:30,727
Howe: The behavior of the
afflicted girls is seen
539
00:30:30,830 --> 00:30:32,996
Not just by the magistrates
doing the examinations
540
00:30:33,098 --> 00:30:37,134
But also by the townsfolk
as strongly suggestive of guilt.
541
00:30:37,236 --> 00:30:39,503
Sarah good.
542
00:30:39,605 --> 00:30:42,039
Do you not see now
what you have done?
543
00:30:42,141 --> 00:30:44,708
Why do you not
tell us the truth? Why?
544
00:30:44,810 --> 00:30:46,510
Narrator: Desperate
to save herself,
545
00:30:46,612 --> 00:30:49,680
Sarah good points the finger
at the two other suspects.
546
00:30:49,782 --> 00:30:52,549
You should have
brought other people
547
00:30:52,651 --> 00:30:54,818
To this meeting house
with me.
548
00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:57,688
And he said "what others?"
549
00:30:57,790 --> 00:31:00,224
Osborne.
550
00:31:00,326 --> 00:31:02,993
Narrator: It's now a fight
for survival,
551
00:31:03,095 --> 00:31:05,729
But who will ultimately
take the fall?
552
00:31:18,010 --> 00:31:20,277
Narrator: Salem village is
seemingly under attack
553
00:31:20,379 --> 00:31:22,246
From demonic forces.
554
00:31:22,348 --> 00:31:23,747
Three women have
been arrested
555
00:31:23,849 --> 00:31:25,782
On suspicion of witchcraft.
556
00:31:25,885 --> 00:31:29,786
Now they face examination
in the village meeting house.
557
00:31:32,925 --> 00:31:37,461
Attention at the examinations
now turns to sarah osborne.
558
00:31:37,563 --> 00:31:42,032
Sarah osborne was a bit
of an outcast in the village.
559
00:31:42,134 --> 00:31:47,271
She'd done something
very scandalous in her past.
560
00:31:47,373 --> 00:31:50,774
Howe: Sarah osborne hasn't been
seen at meeting for some time.
561
00:31:50,876 --> 00:31:54,244
One school of thought holds that
it's because she has taken up
562
00:31:54,346 --> 00:31:55,779
With a man who worked for her.
563
00:31:55,881 --> 00:32:00,751
So there is a sexual dimension
to sarah osborne's alienation
564
00:32:00,853 --> 00:32:03,020
From the religious community.
565
00:32:03,122 --> 00:32:04,588
Sarah osborne.
566
00:32:04,690 --> 00:32:07,124
Narrator: Already convinced
of sarah osborne's guilt,
567
00:32:07,226 --> 00:32:08,525
Hathorne immediately tries
568
00:32:08,627 --> 00:32:11,194
To get her to make
a damning confession.
569
00:32:11,297 --> 00:32:13,897
What evil spirits
are you familiar with?
570
00:32:13,999 --> 00:32:16,500
None.
571
00:32:16,602 --> 00:32:19,937
In her attempt to clear
her name, she testified
572
00:32:20,039 --> 00:32:23,907
That she was more likely to be
bewitched than to be a witch.
573
00:32:24,009 --> 00:32:28,679
And she told a story about
an apparition that she had seen.
574
00:32:28,781 --> 00:32:32,282
I saw a dark specter.
575
00:32:32,384 --> 00:32:34,885
But she slipped up and told
the magistrates
576
00:32:34,987 --> 00:32:38,655
That this diabolical figure
had warned her
577
00:32:38,757 --> 00:32:41,458
Not to go to meeting,
not to attend church.
578
00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:43,994
And, in fact, she had not
attended church
579
00:32:44,096 --> 00:32:46,229
For a year and a half
at that time.
580
00:32:46,332 --> 00:32:49,066
So you admit you confer
with the devil himself?
581
00:32:49,168 --> 00:32:51,702
Because of illness,
but it appeared more sinister
582
00:32:51,804 --> 00:32:55,505
Before the court.
583
00:32:55,607 --> 00:32:58,308
Narrator: Like sarah good,
sarah osborne denies
584
00:32:58,410 --> 00:33:01,445
Having any involvement
in witchcraft.
585
00:33:01,547 --> 00:33:03,981
Finally, amid great
anticipation,
586
00:33:04,083 --> 00:33:08,885
Tituba is called forward
for the last interrogation.
587
00:33:08,988 --> 00:33:11,555
Hill: Straight away, the girls
just all started screaming
588
00:33:11,657 --> 00:33:12,990
And shouting.
589
00:33:14,994 --> 00:33:17,227
Why do you hurt
these children?
590
00:33:17,329 --> 00:33:19,062
What harm have
they done to you?
591
00:33:19,164 --> 00:33:22,232
I do no harm to them.
592
00:33:22,334 --> 00:33:25,736
Aronson: She starts out by
denying that she is a witch.
593
00:33:25,838 --> 00:33:27,204
I have done nothing.
594
00:33:27,306 --> 00:33:30,107
And she sees
that is not going well.
595
00:33:30,209 --> 00:33:32,509
Does the devil tell you
he hurts them?
596
00:33:34,913 --> 00:33:37,447
And then her testimony shifts.
597
00:33:37,549 --> 00:33:39,616
Tell me the truth.
598
00:33:39,718 --> 00:33:41,785
Who hurts them?
599
00:33:41,887 --> 00:33:44,821
The devil,
for all I know.
600
00:33:47,993 --> 00:33:50,761
She reads the situation.
601
00:33:50,863 --> 00:33:52,362
Ahh.
602
00:33:52,464 --> 00:33:55,999
She shifts immediately
from being combative
603
00:33:56,101 --> 00:33:58,135
To being acquiescent.
604
00:33:58,237 --> 00:34:05,242
And she gives the court
what the court seems to want.
605
00:34:05,344 --> 00:34:07,778
I think she's incredibly savvy
in certain ways,
606
00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:09,279
She realizes
607
00:34:09,381 --> 00:34:13,884
That if she confesses,
she might make it out alive.
608
00:34:13,986 --> 00:34:18,088
Hill: Hathorne, instead of being
harsh and angry
609
00:34:18,190 --> 00:34:21,792
And pressing,
he was delighted with her.
610
00:34:21,894 --> 00:34:24,494
I mean, this was
what he wanted to hear.
611
00:34:24,596 --> 00:34:27,097
And how does
the devil appear?
612
00:34:29,334 --> 00:34:35,439
I think yesterday,
I saw a thing like a man.
613
00:34:35,541 --> 00:34:37,040
All in black.
614
00:34:37,142 --> 00:34:39,943
Brock: When tituba says
she sees the devil,
615
00:34:40,045 --> 00:34:44,214
She doesn't say she sees
a grotesque winged beast.
616
00:34:44,316 --> 00:34:46,116
She says she sees a man.
617
00:34:46,218 --> 00:34:48,919
Howe: Tituba describes him
as a man in a black hat.
618
00:34:51,990 --> 00:34:53,356
Some historians have pointed
to the fact
619
00:34:53,459 --> 00:34:57,461
That she describes a man
who dresses like samuel parris.
620
00:34:57,563 --> 00:34:59,629
Narrator: The crowd is stunned
into silence
621
00:34:59,731 --> 00:35:02,132
As tituba begins her story.
622
00:35:06,705 --> 00:35:09,306
He appeared as I was
scrubbing the floor.
623
00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:17,714
Serve me.
624
00:35:17,816 --> 00:35:20,283
He told me he was a god.
625
00:35:20,385 --> 00:35:23,353
And he asked me to serve him.
626
00:35:23,455 --> 00:35:25,055
Believe in me.
627
00:35:27,559 --> 00:35:29,226
Serve me for six years
628
00:35:29,328 --> 00:35:32,562
And I will give you
many fine things.
629
00:35:32,664 --> 00:35:35,432
She said he was going
to hurt the children,
630
00:35:35,534 --> 00:35:36,933
And he wanted my help.
631
00:35:37,035 --> 00:35:42,772
Refuse, and I will hurt both you
and the children.
632
00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:50,814
See?
633
00:35:50,916 --> 00:35:52,415
For you.
634
00:35:55,020 --> 00:35:57,087
You're no god.
635
00:35:57,189 --> 00:35:59,489
This is a matter
for my master.
636
00:35:59,591 --> 00:36:02,659
When I refused,
he disappeared.
637
00:36:04,029 --> 00:36:06,129
You will see me again.
638
00:36:08,133 --> 00:36:13,670
A few days later he came back
with good wife good.
639
00:36:13,772 --> 00:36:15,572
Parris:
Spirit come upon this house,
640
00:36:15,674 --> 00:36:17,474
We ask that you heal
these children.
641
00:36:17,576 --> 00:36:20,944
He offered me
a-a little yellow bird.
642
00:36:23,815 --> 00:36:25,682
Narrator: Tituba describes
the yellow bird
643
00:36:25,784 --> 00:36:28,385
Flying above the family's
praying heads,
644
00:36:28,487 --> 00:36:30,820
Seen only by her
and the children
645
00:36:30,923 --> 00:36:34,724
Whose eyes had been opened
to the invisible world.
646
00:36:40,032 --> 00:36:42,866
We ask that you give
the souls in this house...
647
00:36:42,968 --> 00:36:46,703
She describes
being offered money.
648
00:36:46,805 --> 00:36:49,472
And being offered rest
from work.
649
00:36:49,575 --> 00:36:53,143
For a woman who is not free,
650
00:36:53,245 --> 00:36:55,212
In some sense,
I see tituba's confession
651
00:36:55,314 --> 00:37:00,984
As a very profound expression
of a wish for all of the power
652
00:37:01,086 --> 00:37:03,486
That she is denied.
653
00:37:03,589 --> 00:37:07,357
All the pain and suffering
that is brought into my life.
654
00:37:07,459 --> 00:37:11,628
Then on another bird, I saw
the face of good wife osborne.
655
00:37:13,131 --> 00:37:16,833
Sign the book and be free.
656
00:37:16,935 --> 00:37:21,972
In the fireplace,
I saw a creature.
657
00:37:22,074 --> 00:37:25,942
All-over hairy,
like an imp.
658
00:37:26,044 --> 00:37:29,079
Narrator: The devil asks tituba
if she would like the imp
659
00:37:29,181 --> 00:37:30,814
As her servant.
660
00:37:30,916 --> 00:37:34,484
No, no, I would not.
661
00:37:34,586 --> 00:37:37,754
Serve me.
662
00:37:37,856 --> 00:37:41,157
Say she that the devil
sought to make her sign
663
00:37:41,260 --> 00:37:44,261
Away her soul in his book.
664
00:37:44,363 --> 00:37:46,663
Little: It's a very protestant
vision that there
665
00:37:46,765 --> 00:37:47,964
Would be a book involved,
666
00:37:48,066 --> 00:37:51,868
Because of course puritans
are people of the book.
667
00:37:51,970 --> 00:37:56,406
It's an especial perversion
for an enslaved woman
668
00:37:56,508 --> 00:38:01,278
To pick up a pen and make her
mark or write her name.
669
00:38:01,380 --> 00:38:03,613
Good signed.
670
00:38:03,715 --> 00:38:07,884
Osborne signed.
671
00:38:07,986 --> 00:38:10,453
You sign.
672
00:38:10,555 --> 00:38:14,491
He then offered me the book
again and made me sign it.
673
00:38:22,434 --> 00:38:28,405
But in it, written, I saw were
nine other names.
674
00:38:28,507 --> 00:38:30,173
Narrator:
It's a shocking revelation
675
00:38:30,275 --> 00:38:34,544
That suggests there are nine
other witches in salem.
676
00:38:34,646 --> 00:38:37,647
The court room is stunned.
677
00:38:37,749 --> 00:38:40,250
So now the hunt is on.
678
00:38:53,131 --> 00:38:54,497
Narrator: When tituba confesses
679
00:38:54,599 --> 00:38:56,800
That she has been visited
by the devil,
680
00:38:56,902 --> 00:38:59,436
It confirms salem's worst fears.
681
00:38:59,538 --> 00:39:02,572
The village is under siege,
and there are nine other
682
00:39:02,674 --> 00:39:04,974
Unnamed witches
that need to be found.
683
00:39:07,879 --> 00:39:10,180
As tituba's
interrogation concludes,
684
00:39:10,282 --> 00:39:14,250
Once again the afflicted
children burst into fits.
685
00:39:16,355 --> 00:39:18,254
Who now afflicts
these children?
686
00:39:23,895 --> 00:39:26,730
Sarah good.
Who else?
687
00:39:26,832 --> 00:39:28,965
Sensing her options closing in.
688
00:39:29,067 --> 00:39:32,369
Tituba claims she too
is afflicted.
689
00:39:32,471 --> 00:39:34,771
I cannot see.
690
00:39:34,873 --> 00:39:36,606
I am blinded.
691
00:39:36,708 --> 00:39:39,876
Moments later, tituba
is rendered speechless,
692
00:39:39,978 --> 00:39:42,779
Forcing john hathorne
to end the examination.
693
00:39:53,024 --> 00:39:56,526
Since witchcraft is a hanging
offence, the three suspects
694
00:39:56,628 --> 00:40:00,630
Are transferred to boston jail
to await their formal trial.
695
00:40:04,536 --> 00:40:06,202
Unwilling to accept her fate,
696
00:40:06,304 --> 00:40:08,638
Sarah good attempts to escape.
697
00:40:08,740 --> 00:40:11,441
It does her no good.
698
00:40:11,543 --> 00:40:15,011
Howe: Tituba's confession
confirms the suspicion
699
00:40:15,113 --> 00:40:16,880
That witchcraft
is responsible
700
00:40:16,982 --> 00:40:18,681
For what's happening
in the village.
701
00:40:18,784 --> 00:40:21,918
Now, for samuel parris,
what a relief.
702
00:40:22,020 --> 00:40:24,754
You know, it's not that there's
something wrong with his soul.
703
00:40:24,856 --> 00:40:27,223
It's not that there's something
wrong with his leadership.
704
00:40:27,325 --> 00:40:30,627
The problem lies outside of him.
705
00:40:30,729 --> 00:40:32,896
Coy: This was the confirmation
of everything he'd been warning
706
00:40:32,998 --> 00:40:36,266
About vis-à-vis the devil's
assaults on the community
707
00:40:36,368 --> 00:40:39,369
In the last days.
708
00:40:39,471 --> 00:40:42,372
We pray god that the evil
has been banished
709
00:40:42,474 --> 00:40:43,540
From the children.
710
00:40:43,642 --> 00:40:46,242
This thing is not done.
711
00:40:46,344 --> 00:40:47,377
They are three.
712
00:40:47,479 --> 00:40:49,813
Yet we know the devil hides
among us nine.
713
00:40:51,783 --> 00:40:52,882
Aronson: There are nine.
714
00:40:52,984 --> 00:40:55,452
There's a man in black.
There's a book.
715
00:40:55,554 --> 00:40:59,622
This confirms
what a lot of people feel.
716
00:41:03,128 --> 00:41:06,663
This is the moment
where everything changes.
717
00:41:06,765 --> 00:41:12,135
It is not, anymore,
about a few unpopular women
718
00:41:12,237 --> 00:41:15,071
Who people have always
been suspicious about.
719
00:41:19,845 --> 00:41:22,612
I bring the book.
720
00:41:22,747 --> 00:41:24,247
It's a conspiracy.
721
00:41:28,453 --> 00:41:31,354
Narrator: Still to come
on "witches of salem"...
722
00:41:31,456 --> 00:41:34,891
Fear can be a very
contagious phenomenon.
723
00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:38,728
This moves from the hand of
satan upon the parris household
724
00:41:38,830 --> 00:41:42,165
To the hand of satan
upon all of salem village.
725
00:41:42,267 --> 00:41:46,469
the girls just went wild.
726
00:41:46,571 --> 00:41:49,339
I am not a witch.
727
00:41:49,441 --> 00:41:52,375
It became apparent that
if you confessed to witchcraft
728
00:41:52,477 --> 00:41:56,112
That they would keep you alive
at least for a while.
729
00:41:56,214 --> 00:41:59,148
Hill: It's the most
extraordinary event.
730
00:41:59,251 --> 00:42:01,584
Aronson: The visions
of the black masses
731
00:42:01,686 --> 00:42:06,189
Are so clearly the reverse
of a regular service.
732
00:42:06,291 --> 00:42:09,125
It sent shock waves through
the salem community.
733
00:42:09,227 --> 00:42:11,694
The anticipation
would have been
734
00:42:11,796 --> 00:42:13,730
So thick you could have
cut it with a knife.
735
00:42:13,832 --> 00:42:15,298
We offer this witch
for your judgment.
736
00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:18,535
Howe: It's chilling to think
about watching someone you know
737
00:42:18,637 --> 00:42:22,739
Hanged to death
and feeling good.
738
00:42:22,841 --> 00:42:26,876
The whole godly kingdom
is in deadly peril.
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