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

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

In her book A Fever in Salem: A New Interpretation of the New England Witch Trials, Laurie Winn Carlson draws on these events at length in the first few chapters; they make fascinating reading.

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

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 ...

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

the sites of the Salem Witch Trials, and much more. We asked Boston.com readers to give us their best advice to incoming Salem tourists, and they didn’t disappoint. From transit recommendations ...

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 ...