17 things that would get you accused of witchcraft in 1692

[RainDog]

20. Tituba, a slave bought in Barbados, was the first accused of witchcraft

...in Salem. She was accused by the two daughters of her owner. One claim was that she told tales about sex with a devil... maybe she was telling about her own abuse by their father, using her own folklore to obscure...or maybe they saw the truth, or...

And the same girls accused other girls who were family members of others with whom their family was having a feud. Hatfield and McCoys with some hallucinatory religious hysteria.

Even more than a hundred years later, in the U.S. - I know of at least one woman who owned property of her own who was thought to engage in witchcraft, too, and, when people in the South were relocating the Cherokee, etc. - they also oftentimes held the belief that they were haunted by the ancestors of the Cherokees left behind when their bones were discovered when planting fields.