They Called Me A Witch (Monsterbus p.234)

I would have dismissed this as just a predictable one-note twist in the tale, except Kirby adds so much more richness. We have:

1. historical truth (the nature of Salem), 
2. social truth (jealousies that cause people to hurt others) 
3. more than one age old human conflict (plain versus pretty, old ideas versus new, rationalism versus superstition). 
4. a strong female hero - that alone is enough to say this is a Kirby story and not a Lee story. 

All these things make it engrossing, fascinating, stimulating, real. So when we come to the final twist this arouses real thought. We assumed the villagers were bad just because their beliefs seem very old fashioned. And worse, we assume the hero was good because she was pretty. So Kirby reminds us that old fashioned does not automatically mean wrong, and being pretty is a very poor guide to moral character. As for the accuser being motivated by jealousy, we could just as easily say that the man was motivated by lust: the story makes us question our assumptions and judgements.

Note where the evidence points: the ship did indeed crash, and we saw the witch causing it on the first page! Then when the villagers accuse the woman of using charms, in the very next frame we see a strange coincidence leading to the woman charming a young man. Everything the villagers said was true, but as readers we don't see what is in front of us. The pretty woman charmed us too!

I love stories that make us think!