Join Us In art history, the Salem witch trials often take the form of the most cinematic moments: arrest, prosecution, and execution. These images define our popular understanding of this historic ...

This former haunt of terrified, grudge-holding (and doomed) Puritans bursts with witch museums, statues, tours, workshops, gift shops, costumed visitors and more—what the locals call “witch ...

The hysteria that began in the Massachusetts Bay Colony of Salem between 1692-1693, claimed the lives of 25 people, most by hanging. Massachusetts Puritans hanged 14 women and five men.… ...

According to local historical researcher Marilynne K. Roach’s 2002 book, “The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-by-day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege,” some of the afflicted girls claimed that ...

Boston Globe//Getty Images A copy of the Malleus Maleficarum (The Hammer of Witches ) on view at the Salem Witch Trials exhibit at The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA on Sept. 24, 2020.

Theories about what sparked the Salem Witch Trials include everything from a hallucinogenic fungus to psychological disorders and economic conditions. But now, scientists may have settled the ...

the Salem Witch Trials in Massachusetts, the 1428 Valais Hexen hunts in what is now Switzerland, and the myriad persecutions in Scotland and Ireland after the passage of the Witchcraft Acts of ...

Suranne Jones thinks it's about time the term "witch trials" got a "rebrand". Given that the bulk of people executed were of course women, not witches, she argues their plight should be renamed.

He says the American horror tradition started even before there was an America, with early English settlers and their suspicions that led to the Salem witch trials ... which we live so much ...