Tituba may have originally been a member of the Arawak-Guiana native South American tribe. Many historians, such as Elaine Breslaw and Charles Upham, gathered that Tituba was a Native American based on Samuel Fowler's writing, 'Account of the life of Samuel Parris'. Tituba may have originally been from Barbados. It is said that she was named after her town or tribe. Tituba's husband was John Indian, an Indigenous man whose origins are unknown, but he may have been from Central or South America, Tibitó, Colombia to be precise. It is unknown what happened to her after the case against her was dismissed by a grand jury in May 1693. She was imprisoned for over a year but never went to trial.

She accused the two other women, Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne, of the same crime.

She was pivotal in the trials because she confessed to witchcraft when examined by the authorities, giving credence to the accusations. She was brought to colonial Massachusetts from Barbados by Samuel Parris, the minister of Salem Village. Tituba (Barbados) was an enslaved woman who was one of the first to be accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials of 1692–1693. Accused of witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials.

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