The only Evidence to these accounts is from the court record of the examination (pg.272). Starkey notes that the relation of the children and Tituba based on tradition rather then record. Tituba introduced the girls to several tricks and spells similar to the voodoo she learned at home in Barbados. This was not hard to do since Tituba often babysat the young girls. The girls egg on the Negro slave women of the Parris household to teach them some witchcraft. The book begins with the theory that two young and very deceiving girls began to explore witchcraft because they thought their lives consisted only of working but they lived like princesses. The Devil in Massachusetts presents an account of the accusers, accused, prosecutors and defenders surrounding the trials at Salem. Starkey recreates the sense of pity and terror that surrounded Salem and the suffering that many endured. The trial records applied with a modern psychiatric knowledge surrounding the witchcraft hysteria. The format of the book is narrative with dialogue from actual trial records.
Starkey is an historical narrative of people and events surrounding the Salem Witch Trials. The Devil in Massachusetts: a Modern Enquiry into the Salem Witch Trial by Marion L.
Starkey Garden City, New York.: Anchor books, 1949 The Devil in Massachusetts: a Modern Enquiry into the Salem Witch Trial
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