Ccording to the text, why was Tituba likely charged with witchcraft? Tituba had young followers who started acting strangely, as if under a spell. The teenage girls who "followed" Tituba secretly hated her and called her a witch. Tituba was the only black slave in Salem and this made the prejudiced community suspicious of her. Tituba confessed to the crime of witchcraft to avoid extended jail time.

In "Witchcraft in Salem" any behavior or situation minimally out of the ordinary represented a reason for someone to be accused of Witchcraft, even though there was explanatory evidence on the reasons for such a situation to be happening.

An example of this can be seen through Tituba's accusation. That's because many young people started to follow her. These young people showed strange behavior, as if they were bewitched, controlled, which soon made the entire population believe that Tituba was to blame and that he had bewitched the young.