It would be easy for someone in the town to believe that Tituba works for the Devil. She's from Barbados, she's a slave, she's black, and she's a woman. Reverend Parris already suspects her; he said to Abigail at the very beginning that he'd seen Tituba "waving her arms over the fire" when he found the girls dancing in the woods, and there was "a screeching and gibberish coming from her mouth." Next, after Mr. Hale arrives, Mrs. Putnam...
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