The constable arrests Kit when Goodman Cruff charges her with witchcraft. The constable accepts the Cruffs’ flimsy evidence and suspects that Kit may be a witch, allowing his prejudice to get the better of him. Like many Puritan townspeople in Wethersfield, he suspects that Hannah—ostracized because she is a Quaker—may be a witch. And because Kit is friends with her, he believes that she may be a witch, too. He is wrong on both accounts, as neither woman is a witch.
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The Constable Character Timeline in The Witch of Blackbird Pond
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Chapter 18
...peace is broken by a knock at the door: it’s a deacon from church, a constable, Goodwife Cruff, Goodman Cruff. They tell a skeptical Matthew that they have reason to believe...
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...that Hannah isn’t a witch at all. But the others cut Kit off, and the constable announces that they are arresting Kit for committing witchcraft. Matthew is furious—he finds the charge...
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The constable takes Kit away and locks her in a shed behind his house, where she will...
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