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(Burchard of Worms, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons) One change that led to witch trials across Europe was a change in how the Catholic Church viewed witchcraft. In the 10th century ...

The bill acknowledges that more than 300 years after the witch trials in the U.S., historians, and society agree the accused and convicted individuals were innocent. Community panic, overwhelming ...

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.