Fear + trigger = scapegoat" is displayed at the Salem Witch Museum, a popular tourist attraction in Massachusetts where I ...

The Salem Witch Trials weren’t just mass hysteria—they were fueled by fear, flawed justice, and silence. Mary Easty’s brave defense shook the court, but not enough to save her life.

Like most Americans, Tim Adriance always thought that the Salem ... of Mary Towne Eastey — and her repeated denials of being a witch or engaging in questionable activities. The witch trials ...

In 1648, Margaret Jones, a midwife, became the first person in Massachusetts — the second in New England — to be executed for witchcraft, decades before the infamous Salem witch trials.

WINNSBORO, S.C. — Many of us have heard of the Salem ... Witch Trials,” Gary Pender said. According to a submission to the September 2012 Fairfield Genealogical Society Newsletter by Will Kale ...

It was then she learned about accused witch Sarah Clayes, her house and the area's connection to the Salem witch trials ... Her sisters, Rebecca Nurse and Mary Eastey, had been hanged as accused ...

Witches are a big deal in Salem's modern culture. The city's association with witchcraft has been capitalized on from films like 1993's "Hocus Pocus" to the annual Halloween festivities that draw in ...