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Here are the best witch movies on Disney, Netflix, HBO Max and more from the '80s, '90s, 2000s, and beyond, including family friendly, funny and scary horror options.
A Salem witch killed in the trials, she uses the last of her living power to seek revenge on her killer. But when she and her father come back to life, she ends up meeting her killer’s ...
In Salem, the witch trials are gone—but the tourists aren’t. Here’s how a local Catholic priest welcomes them. Michael J. O’Loughlin October 31, 2022.
The infamous witch trials may have put this Boston suburb on the map, but they’ve also overshadowed much of its magic. Here’s ...
Autumn is the perfect time to delve into the fun, fantasy and fright associated with Halloween, with perhaps no place better for it than Salem — famous for the Salem Witch Trials — making it a ...
According to local historical researcher Marilynne K. Roach’s 2002 book, “The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-by-day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege,” some of the afflicted girls claimed that ...
Salem Village, Massachusetts, became the epicenter of a notorious series of witch trials fueled by fear, superstition, and social tensions. Over the course of a year, more than 200 individuals were ...
The Salem witch trials occurred in colonial Massachusetts between early 1692 and mid-1693. More than 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft—the devil’s magic —and 20 were executed.
Witch trials were not unique to Salem. Europe had undergone a witch-hunting craze from the 15th to the 18th centuries, prosecuting an estimated 100,000 people—mostly women—for accusations of ...
Salem’s complicated journey from witch trials to witch tourism In the 1690s, women were hanged in Salem, Massachusetts on suspicion of witchcraft. Now, it’s a witchy Mecca for tourists.