Adriana Mather, whose ancestor, Cotton Mather, was an integral part of the infamous Salem Witch Trials, returns to that cursed town in her new novel, How to Hang a Witch. This YA novel follows a ...

The witch trial craze in Salem Village faded in 1693, possibly due in part to the public stance taken by prominent anti-witch-trial figures like Puritan minister Cotton Mather. ( Witch hunt ...

And the backlash from the Salem Witch Trials made it difficult to convince people that inoculation worked. Cotton Mather is a familiar figure to people who have an acquaintance with colonial ...

A descendant of Cotton Mather called Sheboygan home. The summer of 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts, was memorable for its fanaticism and cruelty.

Cotton Mather, a colonial preacher, encouraged the witchcraft trials. ... Early on, the Salem witch trials disappeared from the record; a hush descended over 1692 for generations.

What the Salem witch trials can teach us in 2020. Len Niehoff. ... the Salem religious leader Cotton Mather shrugged it off as an example of the devil’s power to deceive.

Over 300 years later, “witch trial” is synonymous with any overzealous prosecution of an innocent person, and the Salem trials are held up as cautionary example of what happens when finding ...

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 ...