Tituba Motif
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Tituba Motif was a slave of Reverend Parris, an important character in the beginning of Arthur Miller's allegorical play The Crucible.
In the play, Tituba was brought to Salem from Barbados. She was told to know how to conjure up spirits, and had allegedly dabbled in sorcery, witchcraft, and Satanism. Abigail Williams and the other girls tried to use her knowledge when dancing in the woods before the trials began; it was, in fact, their being caught that preceded those events. With the original intention of covering up their own sinful deeds, Tituba was the one to be accused by Abigail, who had in fact drank from a magic cup Tituba made, to kill John Proctor's wife Elizabeth and to bewitch him into loving her. She and the other girls claimed to have seen Tituba "with the Devil."
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