Monday, February 5, 2007

The widening Circle of Witchcraft Accusations

Tituba
*****
Eccentrics and Outcasts
*****Examples: Bishop and Osborn
Grudge Victims
*****Examples: Nurse and Burroughs
Witchcraft Skeptics
*****Examples: Proctor and Corey

Why was it easier for the townspeople to believe that people like Tituba and Goody Bishop and Goody Osborn were witches, but believing became more difficult when Goody Nurse and John Proctor and others like them were charged? Be ready to talk about it in class and explain your answer.

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