Having only pieces of what had happened, Aronson explains that during this time some people could have been getting into folk magic, the same as children nowadays playing with Ouija boards or tarot cards. One of these girls included Parris’ niece Abigail, but no records tells of what happened to her or if she was the one who was really doing magic. The children were affected in odd postures, unexplained pinches and bites that returned to normal the next day, numbness and unable to speak. Were these girls ashamed of what they did and acted out as if they were possessed? Were they just experimenting or did they know exactly what they were doing? These are all questions Aronson brings up in his novel. But one of the strange things during this time is that to find the witch, Parris used witchcraft. Did he not believe that witchcraft was of Satan and Satan is the Prince of Lies? If he believed this, why did he use witchcraft to figure out who was the witch?