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

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 ...

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

Here’s how the Salem witch trials came about—and why what happened there is still ... in which Tituba claimed she and the girls had ridden broomsticks and signed a book offered to her by the devil, ...

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

The Sandwich Public Library will host local author Dan Gagnon as he discusses his book, “A Salem Witch: The Trial, Execution ...

If you thought that accusations of witchcraft were a quaint moral panic surely left behind in the Salem witch trial ... But what is a witch, exactly? Marion Gibson’s recent book, “Witchcraft: A ...

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.

Agatha All Along Episode 5 “Darkest Hour / Wake Thy Power” ended with the big twist(?) reveal that “Teen” (Joe Locke) is ...

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 ...