Destination Salem’s Stacia Cooper says these tourists come to visit sites and museums associated with the Salem Witch Trials, where 20 people, mostly women, were executed on suspicion of ...

“Salem is best known for the infamous Salem Witch Trials of 1692, ... a 44-room property that features funky suites with pops of color plus an eclectic mid-century modern aesthetic.

Still, you can’t deny the everlasting popularity of the witch and her aesthetic. According to Google , witches are currently the second most-searched Halloween costume in the country (right ...

The Salem trials unfolded as they did not because of ignorance, intolerance, or fear but because of abuse of power, namely prosecutorial power. Mass fear, the kind of hysteria we’re experiencing ...

A Salem witch trials-themed distillery is looking to enchant fans of craft spirits when it opens in a couple months in south Allentown.Gallows Hill Spirits Co., incorporated in 2016, is scheduled ...

The Salem witch trials are constantly referenced through Quan Barry’s “We Ride Upon Sticks,” the novel being read and explored by the Boston.com Book Club this month. The novel follows the ...

While the Salem witch trials involved trying more than 150 people across the Atlantic Ocean in Europe, where the Little Ice Age also wreaked havoc, about 100,000 people were tried for witchcraft.

Witch trials were not unique to Salem. Europe had undergone a witch-hunting craze from the 15th to the 18th centuries, prosecuting an estimated 100,000 people—mostly women—for accusations of ...

The city of Salem, Mass., has opened a memorial to commemorate the people who were convicted and killed during its notorious series of "witch trials" in 1692.

Historical truths emerge only with time, after which they are ours, particularly on Halloween, to mangle. Early on, the Salem witch trials disappeared from the record; a hush descended over 1692 ...