Home›Open Questions›What does the description of Tituba as an Indian in the 1692 papers actually denote?Open QuestionsWhat does the description of Tituba as an Indian in the 1692 papers actually denote?Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "What does the description of Tituba as an Indian in the 1692 papers actually denote?." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/what-does-the-description-of-tituba-as-an-indian-in-the-1692-papers-actually-denote.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). What does the description of Tituba as an Indian in the 1692 papers actually denote?. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/what-does-the-description-of-tituba-as-an-indian-in-the-1692-papers-actually-denoteCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-what-does-the-description-of-tituba-as-a, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {What does the description of Tituba as an Indian in the 1692 papers actually denote?}, year = {2026}, url = {https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/what-does-the-description-of-tituba-as-an-indian-in-the-1692-papers-actually-denote}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXOpen QuestionCross-Tradition ConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)Open QuestionThe word carried a wide and shifting range in a Massachusetts court of the period, and the clerks who used it were not making an ethnographic determination. The reconstruction of an Arawak origin by way of Barbados rests on that word plus indirect household and shipping records, and no direct evidence of her birth or passage has been found.What would resolve this A study of how colonial Massachusetts clerks used the term across a large corpus of records in the same decades, set against any direct documentary trace of her arrival.OpenColonial American archival history; historical linguistics of legal and administrative usageElaine G. Breslaw, Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan FantasiesCross-Tradition ConnectionsQuestion OnThe Origin of Tituba of Salem Village, Studies Well-attested Source Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan FantasiesElaine G. Breslawtier 1SourcesTituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasiestier 1Elaine G. Breslaw, New York University Press, 1996Breslaw, Tituba, Reluctant Witch of SalemView the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year