The Witch2015

Thomasin:
Why is it when thou dost a wrong, I be a-washing Fathers clothes like a slave, and thou art playing idle?

Mercy:
Because Mother hates you!

Thomasin:
Spoilt child.

Mercy:
I'll tell Mother you have left the farm alone. Black Phillip saith I can do what I like.

Thomasin:
Devil take your Black Phillip.

Mercy:
It's your fault I cannot leave the yard. I could go to the brook before you let The Witch take Sam.

Thomasin:
Quiet thee.

Caleb:
It was a wolf stole Sam.

Mercy:
A witch. I've seen her in her riding cloak about the Wood!

caleb:
Father showed me the tracks.

Mercy:
It was a witch!

Thomasin:
It was a witch, Mercy. You speak aright.

Caleb:
Thomasin!

Thomasin:
It was I!

Mercy:
Liar.

Thomasin:
[walking gradually toward her sister] Twas I what stole him. I be the Witch of the Wood.

Mercy:
Liar! Liar!

Thomasin:
I am.

Caleb:
List' not to her, Mercy.

Thomasin:
I am that very witch. When I sleep my spirit slips away from my body and dances naked with The Devil. That's how I signed his book.

Mercy:
No!

Thomasin:
He bade me bring him an unbaptized babe, so I stole Sam, and I gave him to my master. And I'll make any man or thing else vanish I like.

Mercy:
No.

Thomasin:
Aye. And Ill vanish thee too if thou displeaseth me.

Mercy:
Be quiet.

Cableb:
Mercy, she's but telling fantasies.

Thomasin:
Perchance I'll boil and bake thee since we are lack of food.

Mercy:
Stop!

Caleb:
Stop Thomasin.

Mercy:
Its not true!

Thomasin:
It is, thou thing! How I crave to sink my teeth into thy pink flesh. If ever thou tellst thy mother of this, I will witch thee and thy mother!

Caleb:
And Jonas too!

Mercy:
Caleb!

Thomasin:
Stop thy tears and swear thy silence.

Mercy:
I swear it.

Thomasin:
You will not tell Mother nor Father!

Mercy:
I swear!

Caleb:
Thomasin, let her alone!

Mercy:
[running away] Get away from her Caleb or she'll witch thee!

Caleb:
Why tell Mercy those horrible fancies?