A descendant of a victim of the Salem witch trials confronts contemporary traumas in Sarah Ruhl's Becky Nurse of Salem at Shattered Globe.

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

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In her Newberry Library course, Kay Daly examines the depiction of witches onstage, from the 17th century to the present.

One of Sunday's 17 stops is Callahan State Park, where trolley riders may run into witches from the Bogie Books. Witches will actually be live actors who will recreate scenes from the books. There ...

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

“Your average witch is just somebody who lives next to you and has this spiritual practice you don’t know about,” Deborah ...

Agatha All Along has put Agatha Harkness in the spotlight alongside a coven of unlikely allies as they journey down the ...

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

Women who possessed special knowledge, such as midwives or herbalists, were more likely to be accused of witchcraft, as were ...

In 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt made Columbus Day a federal holiday at the urging of prominent Italian American ...

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