When Tituba is questioned by the Reverend Hale about Betty, she is horrified to think that anyone believes she would harm the child. She responds by saying "I love me Betty!" and later says "I don't desire to hurt little children." Abigail is trying to blame Tituba for what happened to Betty, saying Tituba comes to her in dreams, and made her drink blood, even after Tituba tells the truth and says Abigail asked her...
When Tituba is questioned by the Reverend Hale about Betty, she is horrified to think that anyone believes she would harm the child. She responds by saying "I love me Betty!" and later says "I don't desire to hurt little children." Abigail is trying to blame Tituba for what happened to Betty, saying Tituba comes to her in dreams, and made her drink blood, even after Tituba tells the truth and says Abigail asked her for a charm that involved drinking chicken blood. When Hale encourages her to confess, she implicates Goody Good and Goody Osborn. He also encourages her to ask God for forgiveness. Abby imitates Tituba's behavior and, playacting as if she is hysterical, acts like she is also begging for God's forgiveness.
Then in the same heightened emotional state (again, playacting), Abigail starts to chant the names of various women in the village, accusing them by saying she saw them with he devil. Betty stirs from her stupor and also begins chanting that she saw these same women with the devil. The emotional intensity of Tituba's fear at being accused (she knows that as a slave she is very vulnerable) sparks the same emotional intensity in the girls, and this is the catalyst of the hysteria that sweeps through the village.
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