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 ...

At least 34 people were indicted for practicing witchcraft in the Connecticut witch trials. Eleven people were hanged, according to The Guardian. The last witchcraft trial in Connecticut happened ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

“Billie, a powerful young wizard, is sent to live in the mortal ... The show will cover six of the world’s worst and most fascinating witch trials.