I teach a course on New England witchcraft trials, and students always arrive with varying degrees of knowledge of what ...

Under duress, Tituba confessed to witchcraft ... Like many during the Salem witch trials, the girls’ youth reflects the vulnerability of those targeted. Photograph by Bridgeman Images This ...

To see playwright Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” is to probe into the worst of human nature: fear, paranoia, superstition, ...

Salem, Massachusetts, is a top Halloween destination owing to its witch trials of the 1690s. For that reason, it's also the ...

Perhaps the most famous example of mass hysteria, the Salem Witch Trials were a series of trials and executions ... Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba, a woman enslaved by Parris. Town officials ...

Tituba was one of the first to be accused and confessed under duress. The Salem witch trials, which took place in 1692, were a chaotic and fear-driven process fueled by religious superstition and a ...

Miller's 1953 Tony Award-winning play is a dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials of 1692 and 1693 that follow ... Others accused include Tituba, originally from ...

New research shows that the printing press, invented by Johannes Gutenberg, helped spread conspiracies that fueled the Salem ...

That text was spread throughout the Western world thanks to the newly invented printing press.