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

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

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 ...

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 ...

The Roof, which has a full ... of Salem’s history and the Salem experience,” Beth Crowley, owner and guide, told Boston.com. “A lot of tours will focus on just the witch trials or just ...

She has even less patience for Miller. “The Crucible” is about one heroic man, Becky Nurse dryly notes, but the real Salem witch trials were about 14 murdered women. Linda Reiter (right ...

That’s a month full of spooky ... with a haunted tour of Salem. Salem has dozens of daily walking tours that educate visitors about the famous 1692 Salem Witch Trials and more.

But Salem definitely raises its game for Halloween vacations when fall rolls around. Its longtime annual Halloween celebration is the biggest in the world, spawning Halloween parades, parties, ghost ...