THE CORE ACCUSERSīIBBER, SARAH, a quarrelsome, meddlesome thirty-six-year-old village matron. A village militia captain and Putnam brother-in-law Mary's father. Suggests and supervises witch-cake baking in the Parris household. SIBLEY, MARY, a pregnant, concerned thirty-two-year-old parsonage neighbor. PUTNAM, EDWARD, thirty-eight, Thomas's younger brother, a church deacon. Lives with four witchcraft victims presses first charges and initiates nearly half the rest.
Court recorder, parish clerk, stout Parris supporter. PUTNAM, THOMAS, forty-year-old militia sergeant and veteran of King Philip's War. Lobs a shoe at a defendant levitates in court. POPE, BATHSHUA, forty, a bewitched, sermon-interrupting matron. Displeased with his minister well before the crisis. Worldly-wise, steadfast husband of accused witch Rebecca Nurse. INGERSOLL, NATHANIEL, sixty, militia lieutenant, early village deacon, owner of the tavern in which accusations, hearings, judicial conferences, spectral stabbings, and much speculation takes place. INGERSOLL, HANNAH, about sixty, the tavern owner's wife and a parsonage neighbor. Valiantly, blindly impales specters on his pitchfork and rapier. HUTCHINSON, BENJAMIN, early twenties, adopted son of tavern owner Nathaniel Ingersoll. GRIGGS, WILLIAM, seventy-one, doctor and village newcomer, a Putnam intimate.
SOME OTHER SALEM VILLAGERSĬHEEVER, EZEKIEL, thirty-seven, tailor and farmer, sometime court reporter and accuser. About forty-four, afflicted late in the summer. ELIZABETH, the minister's Boston-born wife. JOHN INDIAN, another slave, repeatedly bewitched. TITUBA, a kindly longtime Indian slave, the first to glimpse a diabolical pact and report a flight through the air. TWO ADDITIONAL CHILDREN, a ten-year-old son and a four-year-old daughter unafflicted and lost to history. BETTY PARRIS, nine, the sole Parris child to suffer symptoms of enchantment never attends a trial. The Parris family : ABIGAIL WILLIAMS, eleven, a fair-haired niece who interrupts sermons and catapults herself, barking, across rooms. Father and uncle of the first bewitched girls master of the first confessed witch in the Salem pulpit from 1688 to 1696. PARRIS, SAMUEL, thirty-nine, the beleaguered clergyman at the center of the diabolical invasion. LAWSON, DEODAT, Burroughs's mannerly, smooth-talking successor, village minister from 1684 to 1688. Father of seven combative and controlling. Departs abruptly in 1692 a minister on the Maine frontier. Thomas Putnam's brother-in-law writhing, yelping Ann Putnam Jr.'s uncle.īURROUGHS, GEORGE, forty-two, Bayley's beguiling, independent-minded successor in the village pulpit, 1679 to 1683. BAYLEY, JAMES, Salem village's first minister, 1673 to 1679.
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