| A | B |
|---|
| Increase Mather | Puritan minister |
| Massachusetts | the state where the trials were held |
| Salem | the town where the accusations took place |
| George Burroughs | minister who was hanged as a witch |
| Bridgit Bishop | first woman hanged as a witch in Salem |
| Tituba | slave who told stories to the girls |
| Gallows Hill | where the people were hanged |
| Lord's Prayer | what George Burroughs recited |
| twenty | the number of people who died accused of witchcraft |
| twelve | Mathers age when he entered Harvard |
| eighteen | Mathers age when he finished Harvard |
| spectral | a word meaning ghostly |
| advocate | to argue for something |
| recant | to take back publicly a belief |
| contrition | the state of being contrite |
| superstition | a belief or practice resulting from ignorance |
| recompense | to pay back |
| embroil | to throw into disorder or confusion |
| witch cake | what Tituba baked |
