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

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

Five die in jail, one is crushed to death and 19 die on the gallows. The Salem witch trials have long been regarded as the textbook example of what happens when people are overwhelmed by hysteria.

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.

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

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 ...

Statistics is just one way to tell the tale of the infamous Salem witch trials. In just 16 months between February 1692 and May 1693, up to 200 people—mostly women—were accused of practicing ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...