All around, Salem’s witch trials seem to have been bad for dogs. Although there is no official legal evidence that dogs were killed for being witches, it’s clear that there were strong associations ...

Statistics is just one way to tell the tale of the infamous Salem ... Bridget M. Marshall, a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell who has written about historic witch ...

Before the grounds were Lyceum Hall, they were the site of an apple orchard belonging to Bridget Bishop, the first woman killed in the Salem Witch Trials. Visitors report seeing a figure believed ...

Halloween is approaching, but several hotels in the US are allegedly already full of ghosts and supernatural occurrences.

During the scholarly reexaminations of the Salem witch trials during the 19th century, Bridget Bishop's claims on this estate were posited as the real reason for her being accused of witchcraft. In ...

She was the first woman sentenced to hang for witchcraft. Bridget Bishop was the first person executed during the Salem witch trials in 1692. She was born around 1632 in Norwich, England, and was ...

Martha Corey and her persecutors, Salem witch trials Vintage engraving of Martha Corey and her persecutors. Martha Corey (1619 or 1620 – September 22, 1692) was accused and convicted of witchcraft ...

Interestingly, Bridget Bishop, the first woman executed during the Salem witch trials, was put on trial on June 2, 1692.