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

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.

Witch trials were not unique to Salem. Europe had undergone a witch-hunting craze from the 15th to the 18th centuries, prosecuting an estimated 100,000 people—mostly women—for accusations of ...

In Salem, the witch trials are gone—but the tourists aren’t. Here’s how a local Catholic priest welcomes them. Michael J. O’Loughlin October 31, 2022.

Salem is having a moment. This past July, Massachusetts passed a lot that officially exonerated Elizabeth Johnson, Jr., the last person accused of being a witch. On Oct. 7, an exhibit opened at ...

The Boston grave site of Samuel Sewall, a judge in the 1692-1693 Salem witch trials. (Steve LeBlanc/AP) In 1711, colonial leaders passed a bill clearing the names of some convicted in Salem.

LaPierre's students ended up starting a campaign to see that accused witch Elizabeth Johnson Jr. - who was the last witch to be accused of witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials - was finally ...

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 ...

The home was a tavern frequented by Salem Village residents who accused their neighbors, sometimes while inside the tavern, of witchcraft during the witch hysteria of 1692. Dave McKenna/Courtesy photo ...