A witch who murdered a pregnant college student and stuffed her body in a bag was granted a 30-day vacation from prison to attend self-help courses at a halfway house. Victoria Lea Henneberry ...

Mackenzie had been involved in many trials during the Great Scottish Witch Hunt of 1661-2. Over a 16 month period during 1661 to 1662, Scotland carried out one of the largest witch hunts ever seen ...

On this day in 1690, "Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick" attracted colonial officials' ire by repeating a scandalous rumor and condemning a British alliance with the Mohawk Meilan ...

Between early 1692 and mid-1693, the Salem witch trials swept through colonial Massachusetts ... 20 people were executed, many others languished in prison, and the entire community was left ...

In her book A Fever in Salem: A New Interpretation of the New England Witch Trials, Laurie Winn Carlson draws on these events at length in the first few chapters; they make fascinating reading.