Elizabeth Parris
Betty was the 9 year old young girl of the reverend Samuel Parris in Salem Village. Betty was the first to fall sick after “being bewitched”, as one believed it in 1692. Its verbal distorsions, convulsions and its outbursts in an unknown language disconcerted everyone, particularly when other young girls started to present the same symptoms. Little time after the beginning of its disease, the charges of the young girls showing their neighbors of sorcery marks the beginning of the business of the Sorcières of Salem.
It seems that Betty and its cousin Abigail Williams were impressed by the accounts Vaudou of Staggered, the slave of the reverend Parris originating in Barbados.
In the part of Arthur Miller, The Crucible , Betty and the other young girls act commes of had because they are frightened. The Reverend Parris learned that they had danced during the night of the day before in wood with Tituba and they fear to be punished.
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