"Historically, the practice or invention of witchcraft is believed to have started in the fifteenth century and is most notably known for the hysteria that it caused in the late sixteen hundreds in Salem, Massachusetts during the Salem witch trials"

The statement is untrue because the concept of witchcraft exists from antiquity, since the first civilizations.

This is why the Hebrew bible makes references to witchcraft in chapters written at least two thousand years before the fifteenth century.

It is true that there were periods of heightened hysteria about witchcraft in Medieval Europe, but it is not because of a belief that witchcraft had been invented recently.

d. migration of french settlers into english colonies

the exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service.