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 ...

“Witch trials,” Gibson writes ... advocate who specialized in church law saved not only her but her fellow prisoners. A couple of centuries later, Marie-Catherine Cadière, a pious young ...

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 ...

Suranne Jones thinks it's about time the term "witch trials" got a "rebrand". Given that the bulk of people executed were of course women, not witches, she argues their plight should be renamed.

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.

The Salem Witch Trials. In this way, the Hanover Repertory Theatre's production of "The Crucible" begins, directed by Livy Scanlon. Verily, it's like a play within a play, as doomed prisoners ...