ed at the idea that everything was caused by the Devil (most people knew about the earthquake).
             Even with all these things happening, it is still hard to believe how the events of 1692 began in Salem Village. Most sources agree that Tituba, Reverend Parris' slave, introduced white magic to the afflicted girls. A common white magic practice was to spin an egg white, and the shape would show what one's husband's profession would be. This is what is believed the girls were doing. In February of 1692, Elizabeth Parris and Abigail Williams, two of the accusers, were playing this trick and they saw something that obviously disturbed them, because shortly after that they started convulsing and going into fits. Soon after that, Sarah Bibber, Mary Herrick, Deliverance Hobbes, Elizabeth Hubbard, Mercy Lewis, Ann Putnam Jr., Mary Warren, Mary Walcott, and a few housewives started having fits as well. The girls all had the same symptoms (which ranged fr
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