Her obsession for revenge, as well as the belief that the world owes something to her, are the trigger for her bitterness and malice.Ĭlearly once a well-rounded teenage girl with plump rosy cheeks and golden hair, Mercy Lewis could very well have been the picture-perfect 'village belle' if not for the scars she now bears from her prolonged torment at the hands of witches. The torments endured radicalized Mercy into a sadistic and vengeful witch. Mercy also appears to be a naturally kind person who is visibly pained by the role she unwillingly plays in Mary's plan to turn Salem residents against each other, and at one point fights off Sibley's spell at a great physical strain to herself rather than accuse another innocent of witchcraft. Mercy is an unassuming girl with a friendly, trusting disposition that also allows other characters to take advantage of her she trusts Mary Sibley, which enables the latter to plant a familiar in the form of a black snake inside her body she trusts her father and the priest each time they minister to her, even when her father takes a knife to slice her belly and she accepts a private audience with Mary even after having discovered she is the one tormenting her. At some point around 1692, she is chosen by Mary Sibley as host of her familiar and forced to feed the evil creature on behalf of the witches.

Mercy is the daughter of the Reverend Lewis, forced to a strict education as it relates to the Puritan thought.

' Mercy has found her calling running the brothel and starts an unlikely partnership with someone in Salem which turns into a love affair.' Early Life

She later becomes a witch and swears to get revenge on Mary for all she has done.' ' Mercy Lewis was a girl with strange afflictions done by an unknown tormentor, who is later revealed to be none other than Mary Sibley.

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