The books recounts the witch trials historians believe inspired the Salem trials in the United States of America.

Yet the series of witch trials that stand out the most are those that occurred in Salem over the course of several months in the early 1690s. Between 144 and 185 women, children, and men were ...

This illustration shows two women accused of bewitching young girls at the Salem Witch Trials in Massachusetts in 1692. In 1597, under the threat of extreme torture, Margaret Aitken from Balwearie ...

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.

"It was quite tricky for women in the 17th Century ... "The Hale's trials are considered to have inspired the Salem Witch Trials," Mr Clarke continued. "There has been some confusion over which ...

some semblance of justice was restored back in 2001 when Massachusetts officially exonerated five women who were wrongly accused and executed for witchcraft during the Salem witch trials in 1692.

The Salem witch trials are famous, but throughout history thousands were executed for the impossible crime of witchcraft. Most suspects were poor women, elderly, indigenous people or disabled ...

On June 10, the first witch was hanged on Salem's Gallows Hill ... eight men and women were hanged. Contrary to the legends which surround the trials, no witch was ever burned in Massachusetts.

The Crucible” is a dramatization of the Salem Witch Trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692-1693. American playwright Arthur Miller penned the play as an allegory for ...

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 ...

One is an immersive narration of the 1692 Salem witch trials featuring costumed life-size mannequins, lighting and prerecorded narration, and the second, titled "Witches: Evolving Perceptions ...