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

Halloween is almost here, and that means it's time for ghosts, supernatural creatures and, of course, witches. Perhaps the ...

Statistics is just one way to tell the tale of the infamous Salem witch trials. In just 16 months between February ... claimed she and the girls had ridden broomsticks and signed a book offered to her ...

Each week we pause to ponder the truths available to us from the pages of history. We browse through the annals of the ...

her trial technically wasn't part of the Salem witch trials. Her trial has a few similarities to the real-life Salem witch trials, but the biggest difference is that it has a huge impact.

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 ...

Linda Reiter stars as the title character in Shattered Globe Theatre’s production of “Becky Nurse of Salem,” as a tour guide ...

If you thought that accusations of witchcraft were a quaint moral panic surely left behind in the Salem ... witch, exactly?

“A lot of tours will focus on just the witch trials or just ghost stories. We combine so our travelers will learn about our maritime history. They’ll also do a deep dive into the Salem witch ...