The first accused by the afflicted girls was Tituba, the Parris family's Caribbean slave. There are many different stories about Tituba but all have overlapping similarities. Tituba was the first accused by the afflicted girls and also the first witch to confess to her "sins". She did it for self preservation and was not sentenced to death. To further take the blame off of herself, she told of the active group of witches in Salem and in doing so, named Sarah Good and Sarah Osbourne as witches. She later withdrew her confession and had to spend thirteen months in jail. Another of the first witches, was Sarah Good, a homeless beggar who was identified by Tituba. During her trial at least seven people testified about her angry muttering and general turbulence after people refused to give her charity. To further her sentence, four- year-old Dorcas Good (Sarah's only child) was arrested and gave a confession, implicating that her mother as a witch. (The Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692) Sarah Good was hung on Gallows hill but before she died she gave a curse to the local priest "You are a liar. I am no more a witch than you are a wizard, and if you take away my life God will give you blood to drink." (Hill 74) And it seems that her curse did come true as he died of internal hemorrhage, bleeding profusely at the mouth. The people thought it justified the killing, proving that she really was a witch. Sarah Osborne, an elderly impoverished woman was the other woman identified by Tituba. Osbourne was the first defendant to assert in her defense the theological claim that the devil could take the shape of another person without their compliance. This managed to bring the Salem witch trials to a halt for a little while. Sarah Osbourne never came to trial because she died in jail in 1692. Rebecca Nurse was the first "unlikely" witch to be accused. At the time of her trial she was 71 years old, and had acquired a reputation for exemplary piety that was virtually unchallenged in the community. Many people voted for her innocence, but in the end, she was excommunicated from her church, then sentenced to death and executed. This brought the Salem Witch Trials to a hopeless point because the people realized that no one was safe. If the most prestigious woman in Salem could be executed, then anyone could. John Proctor was the first male to be accused, he was called a wizard, the term for a male witch. (The Salem Trials of 1692) There were many people accused of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials. Tituba, Sarah Good, and Sarah Osbourne were all women on the margins of society. Which was the most common type of person to be accused. But both men and women were executed and even Rebecca Nurse with her totally untarnished reputation was killed for witchcraft. No matter whether you were a man or a woman, accepted or not in the society you stood a chance of being accused as a witch. (What type of people were accused of witchcraft in the Salem Witch Trials?)