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

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

It’s one of the oldest documented parts of our state’s history, and also one of the darkest. The Connecticut Witch Trials ...

More specifically, that means the Salem witch trials of 1692, wherein young women were convicted of being something that does not actually exist. More than a dozen of them were hung but that has ...

Whispers of Witchcraft runs on October 19 and 20 as ... corridors concealing sinister characters and edge-of-the-seat trials (tickets (£16.26 including a cocktail). Visit ...

The stories primarily feature White individuals, reflecting the demographics of those involved in the witch trials. One of the first three women accused during the Salem witch trials is a enslaved ...

Drag the witch! Rip off your bonnets and sneak into the woods of Puritan New England, where bible thumpers and booty bumpers rendezvous in secret gothic gaiety. Cast out those prudish finger-pointers ...

Witchcraft trials became a nexus between law, theology and the culture of common people. In this course, students will study the cultural and social basis of this development, and get to know a ...