Instead of being sentenced to the stake, Jean Grenier was confined to a monastery as a mentally ill person, in a ...

The George and Dragon and the White Bear pub have sun trap beer gardens that are the perfect spot on a sunny day. A favourite ...

Yet the series of witch trials that stand out the most are those that occurred in Salem over the course of several months in the early 1690s. Between 144 and 185 women, children, and men were accused ...

In 1692, the colonial town of Salem, Massachusetts, became caught up in a fervor over alleged witchcraft. In her new book “The Witches,” Stacy Schiff explores what led a group of Puritans to ...