There was no one who was really a witch there. if someone decided they thought you were a witch you went to trial for it and the reason people were tried was because girls were having strange actions...
Tituba was an Indian woman, not (as commonly believed) a Negro slave. She was originally from an Arawak village in South America, where she was captured as a child, taken to Barbados as a captive,...
Probably that of Rebbecca Nurse. The fact that she had been accused rattled the support of many of the most insistant participants. Initially, she was found innocent, but the court repealed that...
The wife of the governor of Massachusetts was accused, which firmly set him against the trials. He ordered the trials put on hold and wrote the English government in London, who replied with an order...