The Plumb Memorial Library at 65 Wooster Street in Shelton will be offering a special program on the Connecticut Witch Trials ...

The infamous witch trials may have put this Boston suburb on the map, but they’ve also overshadowed much of its magic. Here’s ...

When four young girls from Salem Village began having mysterious fits in 1692, they accused Bishop of sending her spirit to ...

DANVERS — After years of neglect to one of the most important sites of the Salem Witch Trials that still stands today, a judge has appointed a receiver to renovate Ingersoll’s Tavern on Hobart ...

The Salem Witch Trials prove how fear can spiral out of control. It started with a few strange accusations, but soon, neighbors turned on each other, trials were held, and innocent people were put ...

The Salem witch trials, a dark chapter in colonial Massachusetts history (1692-1693), saw over 200 accused and 20 executed for witchcraft. Fueled by strange behaviors, spectral evidence, and mass ...

One of the most interesting misconceptions about the Salem witch trials is that they were the first and only witch hunts that took place. What is significant about the Salem trials is they were ...

An installation at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass., uses artifacts and primary sources to tell the true story of the city’s notorious episode of paranoia and persecution.

In 1692 Salem, Massachusetts, dogs were implicated in the witch trials alongside accused witches.

Dogs appeared several times during testimonies, typically because an accused witch was believed to have had a dog who would do her bidding, or because the devil appeared in the form of a dog.

The 15 th through 17 th centuries saw a wave of “witch hunts” break out across the Western world: the Salem Witch Trials in Massachusetts, the 1428 Valais Hexen hunts in what is now ...

I teach a course on New England witchcraft trials, and students always arrive with varying degrees of knowledge of what happened in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692.