最初,提圖芭否認自己曾涉及巫術,然而在塞繆爾·帕里斯為了逼她認罪而對其進行的毆打後,她承認她製作了女巫蛋糕,並表示她之所以製作這個蛋糕給貝蒂·帕里斯是想要幫助她。事後被問及巫術時,她補充道,她在巴貝多時向當地的女主人學習了神秘的技巧,這種技巧可以保護人遠離邪惡力量。她又重申,既然這樣的力量不是為了傷害人,而是為了保護人而存在,那她自然不會是一名女巫[8][9]。儘管她承認了這些罪行,但沒有證據顯示她真的有做出這些行為[10]。在羅伯特·卡里夫(英语:Robert Calef)的《未知世界的更多困惑》(More Wonders of the Invisible World)中,提圖芭在受訪時表示她在受審中供稱的證詞受到其主人塞繆爾·帕里斯的指示[11]。
^ Games, Alison. Witchcraft in Early North America. Plymouth: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2010 (p. 176)
^ Tituba, Reluctant Witch by Elaine Breslaw p. xxi
^ Tituba, Reluctant Witch by Elaine Breslaw p. 3 - 20
^ Hill, Frances (2009). The Salem Witch Trials Reader (Cambridge, Massachusetts2009), 228. Da Capo Press. p. 228.
Tituba, Reluctant Witch by Elaine Breslaw p. xxi
^ Rosenthal, Bernard (1993). Salem Story: Reading the Witch Trials of 1692. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p. 60.
^ Shapiro, Laura (31 August 2016). "The Lesson of Salem" (PDF). Newsweek. New York City, New York. pp. 64–67.
^Breslaw, Elaine G. Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies. New York: New York University Press, 1996, pp. 107, 170, et al.