The character that sets the stage for all the carnage in Salem was no other than the slave from Barbados, Tituba. Her wicked dancing in the woods with the local children caused an uproar in a deeply religious, puritan society. The girls dancing and casting spells with Tituba in the forest where Abigail Williams, Mercy Lewis, Betty, Ruth, and Mary Warren. Tituba was not attempting to bestow witchcraft upon the puritan girls, she was merely attempting to relive her past from Barbados, but her attempt did not go well with the townspeople of Salem. In Arthur Miller's play The Crucible, Tituba is given two choices, to live or to die. She decides to lie and confess to witchcraft so she can survive, Tituba is then asked “When the Devil comes to you