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

Keller @ Large: Political claims of witch hunt disrespects those who died in actual witch hunts 02:42. BOSTON - There's a new push to clear the names of all of those accused, arrested or indicted ...

The project’s work began in 2022 when the last accused Salem witch, Elizabeth Johnson Jr., was formally exonerated. Last year was also the 375th anniversary of the first witchcraft execution in ...

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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.

While the Salem witch trials involved trying more than 150 people across the Atlantic Ocean in Europe, where the Little Ice Age also wreaked havoc, about 100,000 people were tried for witchcraft.

The adult film actor and self-described witch was appropriately dressed Thursday to receive the first annual "Salem Witches' Woman of Power Award." ...

Hundreds of years after hysteria set into colonial America, ancestors are working to clear the names of those accused in various witchcraft trials.