H: Hath the devil ever deceived you and been false to you? O: I do not know the devil. I never did see him. H: What lying spirit was it then? O: It was a voice that I thought I heard. H: What did it propound to you? O: That I should go no more to meeting, but I said I would and did go the next Sabbath day. H: Were you never tempted further? O: No. H: Why did you yield thus far to the devil as never to go to meeting since? O: Alas! I have been sick and not able to go. Sarah Osburne was then dismissed from the stand, and Mr. Hathorne began to question Tituba, the slave, who told her questioners just what they wanted to hear. HATHORNE: Did you never see the devil? TITUBA: The devil came to me and bid me serve him.... H: What service? T: Hurt the children, and last night there was an appearance [_apparition_] that said to kill the children and if I would not go on hurting the children they would do worse to me. H: What is this appearance you see? T: Sometimes he is like a hog and sometimes like a great dog. H: What did it say to you? T: The black dog said, “Serve me,” but I said, “I am afraid.” He said if I did not he would do worse to me. H: What did you say to it? T: I will serve you no longer. Then he said he would hurt me, and then he looked like a man. This man had a yellow bird that he kept with him, and he told me he had more pretty things that he would give me if I would serve him.... H: Did you not pinch Elizabeth Hubbard this morning? T: The man brought her to me and made me pinch her. H: Why did you go to Thomas Putnam’s last night and hurt his child? T: They pull and haul me and make me go.... H: How did you go? T: We ride upon sticks and are there presently. H: Why did you not tell your master? T: I was afraid. They said they would cut off my head if I told.... H: Did not you hurt Mr. Corwin’s child? T: Goody [_Mrs._] Good and Goody Osburne told me that they did hurt Mr. Corwin’s child and would have had me hurt him too, but I did not.... H: Do you see who it is that torments these children now? T: Yes, it is Goody Good. She hurts them now in her own shape. And so the testimony went. Tituba’s story was even more sensational when she described the “tall man of Boston,” who was supposed to be a wizard in charge of all the local witches. The court adjourned for the day, convinced that the devil had chosen Salem as a special point of attack. Soon, other people in the village began imagining that they, too, were being pursued by witches. Neighbor began accusing neighbor until the whole community was swept up by the hysteria.