In fact, a group of girls in Salem Village, Massachusetts, said they were possessed by the devil and accused many women of witchcraft. The reason they accused these women of witch craft was because they had something that the girls desired. In all honesty, these girls were delusional, they thought that the dancing and worshiping would bring them closer to them when in the end it only pushed them further apart.
The Salem Witch Trials consisted of many deaths due to false assumption of being apprentices