salem witch trials
...ere acting in this way of Parris's daughter and niece. A neighbor told Parris's slave John Indian, to make a witch's cake, using some of the girl's urine, and to feed it to a dog to discover the names of the witches afflicting them. The girls had begun to name people in the Village. The first to be accused was Sarah Good, a homeless mother and beggar, Tibua, an Indian slave of Rev. Parris, and Sarah Osburn. The first to be examined was Tibua, she confessed in great detail to an alliance with the Devil, and she named Osburn and Good as witches. All were jailed on charges of witchcraft and shackled with iron fetters. The accusations continue and began to spread outside Salem Village, filling jails in , Boston, Cambridge, and ...