When four young girls from Salem Village began having mysterious fits in 1692, they accused Bishop of sending her spirit to ...

Bridget Bishop, a woman considered to have questionable morals, was the first to be tried and executed during the Salem witch trials. Bishop was known to rebel against the puritanical values of ...

SALEM — On the 10th day of June, at 10 a.m., a gathering downtown will honor the point when, 331 years earlier, the hanging of a single survivor of domestic ...

On that day, Bridget Bishop became the first executed in the Salem Witch Trials. Goodie Bishop was a middle-aged woman who didn’t stand a good chance of surviving the Salem scare based on her ...

SALEM — Local historians held a celebration of life Thursday morning that was 329 years in the making. Ceremony honors first Witch Trials victim | | salemnews.com Skip to main content ...

History Alive Inc. and Petticoat Pages will host a commemoration of the 329th anniversary of the execution of Bridget Bishop. ... live on Instagram from the 1692 Salem Witch Trials Memorial at ...

A new study discovered what started the 'witch craze' that spurred 300 years of persecution, including the Salem Witch Trials in Massachusetts. It turns out the printing press is to blame.

Three hundred years after the Salem Witch Trials, a cast of Puritans took to the streets of Salem.As tourists looked on, they dragged accused witch Bridget Bishop to Old Town Hall for her trial ...

Gravesite of Samuel Sewall, a judge in the 1692-1693 Salem witch trials who later issued a public confession (Image: AP) The death of Bridget Bishop also shows the power of the unfounded suspicion ...

Hand-written complaints, death warrants and depositions are among 527 delicate Salem Witch Trials documents that have been under the Peabody Essex Museum's care since 1980. “We have provided ...