Abena is raped by an English sailor on a slave ship bound for Barbados.

Tituba witnesses her mother Abena's public hanging for defending herself against a plantation owner's rape attempt.

Mama Yaya adopts the orphaned Tituba and teaches her herbal healing and spiritual arts.

Tituba falls in love with John Indian and consents to becoming a slave to be with him.

Susanna Endicott, near death, sells Tituba and John Indian to Reverend Samuel Parris.

Tituba is baptized and forcibly married to John Indian aboard the ship to America.

Tituba arrives in Salem and meets the villagers who will become central to the witch trials.

Betsey Parris has a violent fit and recoils from Tituba, igniting the witch hunt hysteria.

Puritan ministers beat and rape Tituba with a sharp stick, demanding she confess to witchcraft.

Tituba gives her formal trial testimony, naming Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne as witches.

Jewish merchant Benjamin Cohen d'Azevedo purchases Tituba from prison and takes her into his home.

Puritans burn Benjamin's home and kill his children; he grants Tituba her freedom and books her passage to Barbados.

Tituba returns to Barbados and joins a maroon camp, becoming the rebel leader Christopher's lover.

Christopher betrays Tituba and her lover Iphigene to armed soldiers on the eve of a slave revolt.

Tituba is led to the gallows, where the spirits of Mama Yaya, Abena, and Yao take her by the hand.

Pool 1 traces the most defining events of Tituba's life, from her mother's rape and execution in Barbados to her own death at the gallows. It follows Tituba's fateful decision to surrender her freedom for John Indian and her enslavement under the fanatical Reverend Samuel Parris. The pool covers the ignition of the Salem witch hunt hysteria, Tituba's brutal interrogation by Puritan ministers, and her trial testimony that condemned others alongside her. After her release into the care of Benjamin Cohen d'Azevedo, it tracks how Puritan violence ultimately frees Tituba to return to Barbados. The pool concludes with Tituba's betrayal by the maroon leader Christopher and her execution at the gallows, where her spirit guides take her by the hand.

The headline events of Tituba's journey from Barbados to Salem to her death.

Plantation owner Darnell Davis gives the pregnant Abena to fellow slave Yao to keep as a concubine.

Yao commits suicide shortly after Abena's execution, leaving Tituba an orphan chased from the plantation.

Tituba sacrifices a chicken and performs a love spell to make John Indian fall for her despite Mama Yaya's warnings.

Tituba argues with Mama Yaya about casting a harmful spell to kill Susanna Endicott.

Samuel Parris storms into the kitchen and introduces himself: "On your knees, dregs of hell!"

Tituba befriends Elizabeth Parris aboard the ship to Boston and nurses her and Betsey back to health.

Tituba becomes pregnant in Boston and decides to abort her child rather than bring it into slavery.

Tituba meets the elderly Judah White in a Boston forest, who teaches her American herbs and healing rituals.

A circle of Puritan girls in Salem taunts Tituba about witchcraft, the devil, and who in the village serves Satan.

Dr. William Griggs examines the afflicted girls and declares the evil hand of Satan is upon them.

Hester Prynne invites Tituba into her prison cell and they discuss witchcraft, adultery, feminism, and punishment.

John Indian visits Tituba in the barn and recites his trial testimony, which sides fully with her accusers.

Tituba is transferred to the Salem port prison after discovering that Hester has hanged herself in her cell.

Tituba nurses a severely beaten young slave named Iphigene back to health through spiritual arts.

Tituba's spirit prophesies in the epilogue that the powerful will cover their faces with hoods to continue torturing her people.

Pool 2 focuses on the formative secondary moments that shaped Tituba's life, beginning with the circumstances of her birth in Barbados and the death of her adoptive father Yao. It captures Tituba's forbidden love spell for John Indian, her confrontation with Mama Yaya over dark magic, and Samuel Parris's violent self-introduction as their new master. In Boston and Salem, it tracks Tituba's quiet acts of care and healing alongside the taunting cruelty of the girls who will later accuse her. The pool explores Tituba's brief but defining sisterhood with Hester Prynne in prison and John Indian's final, devastating betrayal through his trial testimony. It closes with Tituba's healing of the young rebel Iphigene and her spirit's haunting prophecy about the racial violence that will persist into the future.

The supporting scenes and secondary encounters that shaped Tituba's fate.

Yao vows to adopt Abena's unborn child as his own and later chooses the name Tituba.

By age five, Tituba realizes her mother cannot love her because she constantly recalls the rapist sailor.

Mama Yaya dies, leaving a fourteen-year-old Tituba to live alone on the island, guided only by three spirits.

John Indian refuses to live with Tituba and insists she become a slave at his owner Susanna Endicott's estate.

Tituba catches her first glimpse of the pale Samuel Parris visiting Susanna and feels a premonition of terror.

Tituba overhears Abigail humming the secret lament song but decides that a child could not be dangerous.

Tituba performs a magic bath ritual to save the mortally ill Betsey Parris despite growing fears about exposure.

Abigail Williams begins faking fits and falling to the floor whenever Tituba appears before the household.

Elizabeth Parris confesses to her husband that she allowed Tituba to use healing powers on the girls.

Tituba performs a sheep blood ritual in the forest and receives Mama Yaya's promise that she alone will survive.

Village constables arrest Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba together after the girls name all three.

Tituba learns, while still imprisoned, that John Indian has taken up with a white woman.

Benjamin Cohen d'Azevedo reacts negatively when Tituba expresses her longing to return to Barbados, and she stays.

On the night before the slave revolt, Iphigene and Tituba become lovers.

Tituba's spirit chooses a descendant named Samantha and teaches her the secrets of the invisible world.

Pool 3 highlights the pivotal realizations and choices that defined Tituba's trajectory, beginning with the tender moment Yao claims her as his own and the painful childhood discovery that her mother cannot love her. It traces the cascade of fateful decisions—following John Indian into slavery, ignoring warnings about Abigail, and healing Betsey Parris—that set the witch trials in motion. The pool captures Tituba's survival instincts during the trials, from the blood ritual that brings Mama Yaya's reassurance to her growing awareness of how men possess and abandon her. Her relationship with Benjamin and the revelation of John Indian's comfortable new life mark a turning point in how Tituba understands love and sacrifice. The pool closes with Tituba's final passionate night with Iphigene before the revolt and her spirit's enduring gift of wisdom to a chosen descendant.

The decisive moments and revelations that shifted Tituba's understanding and sealed her path.