Salem witch trials;
No, not ergot. The girls were daughters of a Preacher in the town. They had a West Indian Slave woman who did divination. That may have been the doorway into what they did.
The adults at the trial should have treated them as demon possessed rather than accepting their spectal witness.
One little **** accused his own grandmother. When her back was turned, he’d throw something into the air inside their cabin, and scream, claiming she was making it fly around.
His caper was foiled when the investigating constable emerged from a large cabinet, having surreptitiously witnessed the scam, and trimmed the little bastard.