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 ...

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

Area doctors examined the girls but couldn’t explain their sudden hysteria. In February 1692 ... In her landmark paper in Science, Caporael was the first to suggest that the Salem Witch Trials were ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Salem has dozens of daily walking tours that educate visitors about the famous 1692 Salem Witch Trials and more ... For magic lovers, “Hysteria: Mentalismo!” runs through Nov. 2 at Emerson ...

Powerhouse Theatre Collaborative will bring Arthur Miller's THE CRUCIBLE to the Colonial Theatre this October, exploring the ...

While Salem is famous for its witch trials ... harm to their communities,” Caruso explained. The hysteria that sparked the witch trials happened during an unsettled time in history, when ...