DANVERS — After years of neglect to one of the most important sites of the Salem Witch Trials that still stands today, a judge has appointed a receiver to renovate ...

The Salem Witch Trials prove how fear can spiral out of control. It started with a few strange accusations, but soon, neighbors turned on each other, trials were held, and innocent people were put ...

US News: The Salem witch trials, a dark chapter in colonial Massachusetts history (1692-1693), saw over 200 accused and 20 executed for witchcraft. Fueled by s ...

Today’s Salem is a strange place, at once alluring and off-putting. This former haunt of terrified, grudge-holding (and doomed) Puritans bursts with witch museums, statues, tours, workshops ...

According to local historical researcher Marilynne K. Roach’s 2002 book, “The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-by-day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege,” some of the afflicted girls claimed that ...

The 15 th through 17 th centuries saw a wave of “witch hunts” break out across the Western world: the Salem Witch Trials in Massachusetts, the 1428 Valais Hexen hunts in what is now ...

LaPierre's students ended up starting a campaign to see that accused witch Elizabeth Johnson Jr. - who was the last witch to be accused of witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials - was finally ...

Martha Corey and her persecutors, Salem witch trials Vintage engraving of Martha Corey and her persecutors. Martha Corey (1619 or 1620 – September 22, ... Salem witch floral celestial romantasy witchy ...

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.

In 1692 and 1693, the Salem witch trials were held in northeastern Massachusetts and led to the prosecution of more than 150 people. In 1692 and 1693, ...