In this day and age, everybody is looking for somebody to blame. It happens in politics, business, family life, media, and any other place you can imagine. Blame is a key self-preservation instinct; people are just trying to survive. The same was happening in Salem. People were just trying to survive the circumstances at the expense of others. Oddly enough, people will dig themselves a deeper hole if it will keep their nose clean at that exact moment. Everybody in Salem was in the same boat, but there is usually an example that if followed, and that example was Tituba.
	The events that occurred in Salem during the witch hunts were caused, at least mostly, by Abigail and her friends figuring out that there’s more profit in confessing to being a witch and then calling out others than there was in telling the truth. The one that showed them this was Tituba. She broke down and saved herself, and in that same moment she started a domino effect that encouraged everybody to lie with her. If she was on a sinking ship, why not take the entire town with her?
	Unsurprisingly, Tituba’s actions were the direct proprietor of lying in Salem. She put out that there’s no rest for the wicked, and followed through with that message. She kept up her “devil” act way longer than she ever need to, adding fuel to the fire. Like Cecilia Gimenez’ attempt at restoring Ecce Home, she followed through to the bitter end of what she started, even though it only made things worse. Tituba could have stopped the witch hunt regardless of anybody else’s claims because she knew the entire truth of the situation that she withheld from the town.
	Some will say that the witch hunt was caused by fear. However, fear does not force people to do things; it simply puts other ideas and possibilities in their minds. I don’t need to name every instance in history where people were brave and stood up no matter the circumstances. Common sense already tells us that the idea of fear is moot. We are all afraid at one point or another, but we do not always make bad decisions. That choice is there. Tituba made her decision at the cost of other’s lives, and so did the rest of Salem.