This 1685 oil on card portrait shows Samuel Parris, the pastor who led the Salem witch hunt in 1692. The early accusations against his family helped ignite the hysteria that led to mass trials and ...

This just goes to show how mass hysteria can be weaponized for corruption purposes. Agatha's trial wasn't nearly as dark as ...

Dogs appeared several times during testimonies typically because an accused witch was believed to have had a dog who would do ...

The Connecticut Witch Trials occurred from 1647 to 1663, more than four decades before the trials in Salem, Massachusetts. ...

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

If you're heading to Salem, you should set aside some time for a visit to the Salem Witch Trials Memorial. Built to honor the victims who died during the 1692 witchcraft hysteria, the memorial ...

The terror began in December 1691 in Salem, Massachusetts. Girls in the village began acting strangely. They spoke with slurred speech and had seizure-like fits ...

What I tried more than anything was to have empathy for the two main characters.” Houle presented his book, “The Putnams of Salem: A Novel of Power and Betrayal During the Salem Witch Trials,” at the ...

Her trial took place during the Salem witch trials in 1693 ... Religion and superstition were the gateway causes of the mass hysteria that took place in Colonial America. According to the World ...