New research shows that the printing press, invented by Johannes Gutenberg, helped spread conspiracies that fueled the Salem ...

With Halloween only weeks away, fans of the spooky season have already been diving deep into their favorite movies and TV series that honor the holiday. John Carpenter and Debra Hill’s Halloween is ...

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

Countless plays, novels, TV shows, and films are set in Salem, including Arthur Miller's "The Crucible," episodes of the ...

That text was spread throughout the Western world thanks to the newly invented printing press.

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The Connecticut Witch Trials occurred from 1647 to 1663, more than four decades before the trials in Salem, Massachusetts. “The witch trials in Connecticut were extremely deadly. The first seven ...

The series premiere of “Witches: Truth Behind the Trials” airs two back-to-back episodes today, Sunday, Sept. 29 starting at 9 p.m. Eastern on National Geographic.

In her Newberry Library course, Kay Daly examines the depiction of witches onstage, from the 17th century to the present.

More specifically, that means the Salem witch trials of 1692, wherein young women were convicted of being something that does not actually exist. More than a dozen of them were hung but that has ...