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 ...

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.

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 ...

Examination of a Witch (1853) by T. H. Matteson, inspired by the Salem trials Credit: collection of the Peabody-Essex Museum The Salem witch trials took place over the course of nine months in ...

The Salem witch trials are constantly referenced through Quan Barry’s “We Ride Upon Sticks,” the novel being read and explored by the Boston.com Book Club this month. The novel follows the ...

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 ...

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

“Salem,” premiering on Sunday, April 20th, enters the world of the most notorious witch trials in history, a period steeped in fear, suspicion, and hysteria.

Take everything you remember about the Salem witch trials from history class and English class readings of "The Crucible" and add in ghouls, some very randy, decidedly un-Puritanical sex scenes ...

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 ...