Along with those women, Tituba came before the authorities in Salem Village on March 1, 1692, to answer to witchcraft charges. The first two suspects denied all knowledge of sorcery.

Discover the fascinating and tragic story of Tituba, the enslaved woman at the center of the Salem Witch Trials hysteria. This historical deep dive explores how her testimony, cultural background ...

Witch trials were not unique to Salem. Europe had undergone a witch-hunting craze from the 15th to the 18th centuries, prosecuting an estimated 100,000 people—mostly women—for accusations of ...

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 ...

The witch hunt began when four young girls played fortune telling games with Tituba, an enslaved woman from the West Indies owned by Salem’s minister, the Rev. Samuel Parris.

Tituba, a woman of color enslaved in the Rev. Samuel Parris’ household, also testified about a dog. ... All around, Salem’s witch trials seem to have been bad for dogs.

I teach a course on New England witchcraft trials, and students always arrive with varying degrees of knowledge of what ...

Tituba, a woman of color enslaved in the Rev. Samuel Parris’ household, also testified about a dog. ... All around, Salem’s witch trials seem to have been bad for dogs.

David Teniers II’s “Incantation Scene” (1650-1690) anchors a display in “The Salem Witch Trials: Reckoning and Reclaiming,” along with two 17th-century books about witchcraft from the ...

Unraveling the Many Mysteries of Tituba, the Star Witness of the Salem Witch Trials. No one really knows the true motives of the character central to one of America’s greatest secrets ...

Tituba, a woman of color enslaved in the Rev. Samuel Parris’ household, also testified about a dog. ... All around, Salem’s witch trials seem to have been bad for dogs.