Mistress Hibbins

Revealed as Governor Bellingham's bitter sister and a witch who invites Hester to a nocturnal forest gathering, later executed for witchcraft. Mistress Hibbins watches Dimmesdale's outcry from a window, extinguishes her lamp and disappears. Mentioned as one who met the Black Man and bears his mark Mistress Hibbins confronts Dimmesdale on the street, dressed in a high headdress, velvet gown, and yellow starch, proposing a midnight meeting in the forest. Mistress Hibbins arrives in elaborate dress, confronts Hester about the minister’s secret sin, invokes the Black Man and the Prince of Air, and departs with a shrill laugh.