Satan

1692 .

February 2, 1692. Entry from Samuel Parris' diary:

The air has changed strangely in Salem. My housewife and former Caribbean slave Tituba had been cleaning one and the same spot in the living room for three days. I looked at the clock and it does it exactly at three in the afternoon and at three in the morning. That night, my niece Abigail Williams and daughter Betty Parris stood next to her and held her hand. I've already spoken to the doctor, William Griggs, who came to see the weird thing about the three women.

February 10, 1692. Entry from Samuel Parris' diary:

That night was horrible. Abigail and Betty have been crawling around walls with arms flailing and limbs twisted strangely. They spoke Latin and yelled at me. They called me a blasphemer. Tituba ran through the living room laughing and said all of Satan's known names. I used holy water and crucifixes to defend myself, but God's power was of limited use against these demons.

February 11, 1692. Entry from Samuel Parris' diary:

My ears were bleeding when the doctor and a priest from the church tried to appease my little Betty, who was screaming uncontrollably. We found we were getting stuck with the Bible when we saw Tituba float furniture in the house. The floor shook, the floorboards rattled and my children fell unconscious to the floor. I grabbed it and ran out of the house. Our doctor, William Griggs, analyzed Tituba and believed that she was beginning to show signs of obsession.

February 15, 1692. Entry from Samuel Parris' diary:

We stayed with our neighbor when we heard that we couldn't go back to the house. We asked Betty and Abigail if they could know anything about Tituba. Betty replied that she saw Satan want to put his hand on her shoulder and that she felt terrible pain. The doctor and the priest decided to try to cast out Tituba the demons, but the power in her was too powerful.

February 16, 1692. Entry from Samuel Parris' diary:

I haven't slept all night and tossed through books when I found a passage where the devil sent henchmen to the human world. Out of frustration - she was a slave - Tituba must have asked Satan for help, so that she could possibly get revenge on us. With this view, I ran to our priest and announced publicly that the city of Salem would be occupied by Satan. He also asked Betty, who then said that an army of little devils would already inhabit Salem. Satan calls them witches. The devil would do that as Betty rejected him when he tried to approach her. She gave me three names: Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba.

February 29, 1692. Entry from Samuel Parris' diary:

The three women accused are charged with witchcraft. Sarah Good was hanged on the spot and Sarah Osborne died in prison a few days later. These two women denied the allegations, presumably insulting Satan for not admitting their witchcraft in public. That's why they died shortly afterwards. But Tituba laughed when the citizens of Salem mocked their witchcraft and called out Satan's name. It sounded like an incantation that made my fingernails roll. She was jailed with a confession of witchcraft.

March 4, 1693. Entry from Samuel Parris' diary:

Tituba was released from prison three days ago by a stranger who paid the necessary fees. She has since disappeared from Salem and I am home alone with the children. The witch trials have ended and I can finally live in peace.

October, 1693. Entry from the diary of a clergyman:

Bones were found near Samuel Parris' house. They were only recently buried. A woman's severed arm was also found. A doctor determined that it must be Samuel Parris and his daughter Betty.

Samuel Parris died at the age of sixty-six and his daughter at the age of thirty-seven. His niece Abigail Williams has disappeared without a trace. The investigation into the killer is ongoing. During the examinations in his house, it was found written on a mirror in the living room: "Look into the darkness."

After the incident, the documents were burned by a stranger. The lifetimes of Samuel and Betty Parris, as well as Abigail Williams have not yet been clarified.