Oh, how many times he bid me kill you, Mr. Parris…He say Mr. Parris must be kill! Mr. Parris no goodly man, Mr. Parris mean man and no gently man, and he bid me rise out of my bed and cut your throat! But I tell him "No! I don’t hate that man. I don’t want kill that man." But he say, "You work for me, Tituba, and I make you free! I give you pretty dress to wear, and put you way high up in the air, and you gone fly back to Barbados!" And I say, "You lie, Devil, you lie!" And then he come one stormy night to me, and he say, "Look! I have white people belong to me." And I look – and there was Goody Good…and Goody Osburn.
– Arthur Miller
The Crucible, Act 1. After being pressured by Parris and Hale to confess to dealing with the Devil and to reveal the names of others, Barbados slave Tituba lies and does so. She makes up a story of how Satan ordered her to kill Parris, quoting the Devil’s words of how bad and mean her master Parris is. Then she offers false testimony that she saw homeless beggar Sarah Good and town drunkard Sarah Osburn in the company of the Devil. In confessing and naming these unfortunate women as "witches," Tituba is hoping to save herself from death. This mirrors events during the witch hunt of communists led by Senator Joe McCarthy during the 1950s, when people were pressured to confess and name names.