More than 200 people are accused of witchcraft; 30 found guilty and 19 hanged. The first person killed is Tituba, an Indigenous (and possibly African) woman enslaved by British slaveholders in Barbados. This is often called the first case of "mass hysteria" in what will become the U.S. It is said that Tituba told stories from her life and the lives of others to the white girls she cared for, and the girls became "hysterical" and were deemed "possessed by the devil."