Nine years before the infamous Salem Witch Trials took place, a Delaware County woman faced her own witch trial in ...

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

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...