The black Man (PG 70)
Witchcraft sprang from primitive religions that expressed belief on the incarnation of a god in a human or an animal. This god was always called a devil by the Christians and it appeared disguised as an animal or dressed inconspicuously in black; hence the Devil is called the Black man. So it makes sense that Chillingworth can be viewed as the Black man because he spontaneously comes into the puritan society, he could me construed as the devil disguised as a physician.
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