Case file · Witch trials
Tituba's confession
Tituba, an enslaved Indigenous woman in minister Samuel Parris's household in Salem Village, confessed to witchcraft in March 1692 and named Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne.
1692 CE · 42.57, -70.95 · status: official
The account
Her vivid confession of a devil, familiars and a book of signatures turned a local affliction into a hunt for a conspiracy. She was jailed for over a year without trial until a grand jury dismissed her case in May 1693.