To hide from their mistakes, they drug down three other women who they thought would be quickly convicted. According to Brooke Nicholson, in her essay, she writes, “The three girls named three women as the cause of their soul’s torment and they selected Sarah Good, a beggar, notorious in Salem Village for her sullen temper and nasty tongue; Sarah Osborne, an elderly woman the townspeople suspected of immortality; and Tituba, the Parris family slave who was asked to perform an occult ritual and obeyed the orders of a white woman” (Nicholson, 2). Each woman that was accused had been thought to use witchcraft before, and although there was no evidence of such, hearsay from neighbors led to the young girls choosing the outcasts. The women who were accused were slaves and women with tainted social status. The first woman accused of witchcraft was a slave to the Parris family. Although there are many different accounts of her background, most say Tituba was brought from Barbados to serve the Parris