The Witches: Salem, 1692, by Stacy Schiff, is a historical work of nonfiction that reads like a twisting, turning mystery. Schiff pulls back the curtain on this bizarre episode in American history ...

Salem 1692 – The Origins of Witch Hunt Madness. Posted: February 21, 2025 | Last updated: March 8, 2025. In February 1692, strange illness struck two young girls in Salem, igniting the infamous ...

Crews responded to a report that ducklings had fallen through a storm drain at the Ridgewater Kroger on Friday, July 4. All ...

An installation at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass., uses artifacts and primary sources to tell the true story of the city’s notorious episode of paranoia and persecution.

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

The horror began in January 1692 in the Salem home of minister Samuel Parris. His 11-year-old niece Abigail Williams and his 9-year-old daughter Betty complained of “prickling sensations . . .

For a book about the 1600s, Stacy Schiff's "The Witches," an exhaustive history of the Salem witch trials, calls to mind a surprising amount of contemporary popular culture. Sometimes Schiff ...

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 ...

Satan came to Salem Village in 1692 … or so many residents believed. Betty Parris and Abigail Williams — daughter and niece of the Rev. Samuel Parris — began acting strangely in January of ...