You didn’t have to be out casting spells and stirring bubbling cauldrons in the dead of night to be at risk of being labeled ...

On this day in 1690, "Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick" attracted colonial officials' ire by repeating a scandalous rumor and condemning a British alliance with the Mohawk Meilan ...

One of the well-known incidents in witch-hunting history was the Salem witch trials, occurring from February ... especially from the Church. Dafoe has reflected on the fallout in an interview ...

The 300-year-old book of witch trials held in Bury St Edmunds will go on display later this month A 300-year-old rare book that details events said to have inspired the infamous Salem Witch Trials ...

The Crucible” is a dramatization of the Salem Witch Trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692-1693. American playwright Arthur Miller penned the play as an allegory for ...

the Witch House is the only structure in Salem still standing that has direct ties to the 1692 witch trials. Because of this, it is a crucial stop on any Salem itinerary (and included on many of ...

One is an immersive narration of the 1692 Salem witch trials featuring costumed life-size mannequins, lighting and prerecorded narration, and the second, titled "Witches: Evolving Perceptions ...

An early preview of the locally filmed upcoming documentary feature film “The Last Witch” will be hosted at Turner’s Seafood at Lyceum Hall this Thursday, Feb. 6, at ...

Anyone accused of witchcraft was usually dealt with in local church courts ... women accused of bewitching young girls at the Salem Witch Trials in Massachusetts in 1692. In 1597, under the ...

In her book A Fever in Salem: A New Interpretation of the New England Witch Trials, Laurie Winn Carlson draws on these events at length in the first few chapters; they make fascinating reading.