Accusing Tituba

Hale: Someone called the devil in the forest. Who was to lead you to dance around the fire. You could save yourselves if you tell me who it was. Was it among you who drank from the kettle? Was there perhaps casting the spells? (Shouts) Was there?

(Mary Warren points as Abigail)

Abigail: Not I! It wasn't me! I swear it!

Hale: These two children may by dying! Who?

Abigail: Tituba.

Ann Puttnam: I knew it!

Piglet: She called the devil?

Mr. Peabody: I should like to speak with Tituba.

(Outside, a few minutes later)

Parris: Tituba!

Putnam: Come out of there now!

(Tituba appears)

Abigail: She made me do it! She made Betty do it!

Tituba: Tituba no do the bad thing!

(Parris and Putnam pulls Tituba)

Abigail: She made me drink blood!

All: Blood!

Mr. Peabody: (in Hale's voice) You drank blood?

Ann: My baby's blood! You murdured my babies, Tituba! I want their names! Who are they?

Hale: Why can the girls not wake? (Parris pulls her and begins to whip her) You send your spirit out to silence them?

Mr. Peabody: Are you gathering souls for the devil?

Tituba: I love me Betty!

Putman: Let's hang her! (Parris whips Tituba who screams) Hang her!

Tituba: No! No, not Tituba!

Hale: You have conjuring the spirits, have you not?

Tituba: She--she beg me to conjure! She beg me to make charm!

Abigail: She lies! She sends the spirit to me in the church, she makes me laugh at the prayer!

Parris: She often have laughed at the prayer!

Abiagil: She come to me while I asleep! She makes me dream corruptions!

Tituba: Why you say the bad thing, Abby?

Abigail: Sometimes, I awake and find myself, standing naked in the open doorway and not a stitch on my body, and she makes me do that, singing her damnned Barbados song, tempting me!

Mr. Peabody: Tituba, I want you to wake those children.

Tituba: I have no power on those children, sir!

Mr. Peabody: You most certainly do and you will free them from it now. When did you compact with the devil?

Tituba: I don't. I don't compact with no devil.

(Parris whips her and she screams)

Parris:

(Tituba continues screaming)

Tituba: I did! (whipping stops) I tell him! I tell him, I tell him! I don't desire...I don't desire to work for him!

(Tituba sobs)

Hale: Then you saw him.

(Tituba nods)

Hale: Poor woman.

Mr. Peabody: Tituba, I know when we bind ourselves to hell, it is very hard to break with it. We are going to help you tear yourself free.

(Inside Parris's house, two minutes later)

Hale:

Mr. Peabody: Look into my eyes, Tituba. Look into me. You would be a good Christian woman, would you not, Tituba?

Tituba: Aye, sir, a good Christian woman.

Hale: And you still love God.

Tituba: I love him with all my being.

Hale: Now in God's holy name--

Tituba: Yes, sir.

Hale: And to his glory.

Tituba: Yes, sir.

Hale: Open yourself. You see the close light within you. Do you want that?

Tituba: I want that light. Save me, Mr. Hale.

Hale: I will if you open your heart to me. Now when the devil comes to you, does he bring other people.

Ann Putman: Sarah Good? Does he bring Goody Good?

Parris: Are there man or woman?

Tituba: Man or woman. Was--was woman.

Boo Boo: What woman? A woman, you say. What woman?

Hunter: Start talking.

Tituba: Uh, I couldn't see. It was black dark--

Parris: You saw him! Why couldn't you see the others.

Tituba: They was talking and runnin' around and caryin' on.

Parris: Out of Salem? Salem witches?

Tituba: I believe so, yes, sir!

Hale: I will protect you. You know the devil can never overcome a minister, do you know that?

Tituba: I know that, sir.

Hale: Tituba, God put your hands in the closest spirits. you have God's eyes. Now face God and speak utterly. Who came to you with the devil? Two? Three? Four?

Ann Putnam: Was Sarah Good with him or Osburn?

Parris: Names! Their names!

Tituba: How many times he bid me kill you, Mr. Parris!

All: Kill him!

Parris: Kill me.

Tituba: He say, Tituba, cut him throat! That's what he tell me! I say, Murdur, I don't hate that man. Him say, Tituba, you work for me, I make you free. I give you pretty dress to wear that put you way up high in the air and you got to fly back to Barbados. And I say, No, devil, you lie! And then, him come to me one stormy night and then say, Tituba, look. I have white people belong to me. And I look.

Rabbit: Yes, go on.

Tituba: I look. And there was Sarah Good!

(Pooh and friends gasp)

(Cindy gasps)

Ann Putnam: I knew it! Why, bless you, Tituba!

Tituba: Aye! And Goody Osburn!

Ann Putnam: I knew it! It would be midwife to me three times and my babies shriveled in her hands!

Abigail: I want to open it myself!

Sherman: You did what?

Abigail: I want the light of God. I want the sweet love of Jesus. I did dance with the devil! I saw him! I wrote it in his book! I go back to Jesus. I kiss his hand.

Mercy Lewis:

Betty: (wakes up)

Mercy Lewis:

Abigail:

(The girls cries out and chatteres)

(They leave the room)

Hale: (smiles in joy) GLory to God! It is broken, they're free!

Hunter: The marshel! I will call the marshel! (He leaves the room)

Mr. Peabody: Let the marshel bring irons!

Putnam: Where's the marshel? Arrest Sarah Orburn!

Cindy: Did you hear that? The spell is broken and the girls are free.

Yogi: How about that? This is what Mr. Hale says.

Boo Boo: We should go and tell John's wife about the news.

Pooh: Ok. But first, Hunter has to come back.