Tituba, a young house servant from the West Indies, allegedly influenced and encouraged occult activities among teenage girls in 17th century Massachusetts, which led to the infamous witch hunts of Salem. This book offers "an imaginative reconstruction of what might have been Tituba's past".-TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT. "A valuable probe of how myths can feed hysteria".-THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD. 15 photos. | Tituba Reluctant Witch of Salem by Elaine G. Breslaw, Paperback | Indigo Chapters