T hroughout accounts of 17th-century witch trials in Europe and North America, physical features alone were considered undeniable proof of witchcraft. The belief was that the devil branded witches ...

You didn’t have to be out casting spells and stirring bubbling cauldrons in the dead of night to be at risk of being labeled ...

THOMASVILLE- The John Lee of Nansemond Chapter, Colonial Dames Seventeenth Century met at The Plaza ... “Dorothy Goode and the Massachusetts Witch Trials, 1692-1693.” Over two hundred people ...

The explosion of witch trials during the 17th century in Europe is explored using vivid illustrations of trials and executions. Professor Malcolm Gaskill investigate how the European pre-modern ...

The 300-year-old book of witch trials held in Bury St Edmunds ... "It was quite tricky for women in the 17th Century, because if you weren't married or had a job you were in quite a precarious ...

(Reginald Scot, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons) In the 17th and 18th Century ... doubts about witch hunts grew and the number of trials across Europe fell. This may be because profound ...

“She had no status to be able to fight for her innocence, and women have been disproportionately the victim of witch trials.” The legislation argues that misogyny played a significant role in ...

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 ...

Fife’s local government has launched a campaign to find the remains of a 17th century witch – and it’s all in the name of feminism, believe it or not. In 1704, Lilias Adie, a woman who lived ...

Designers Florentin Glémarec and Kévin Nompeix called the collection “S4LEM,” a reference to the Massachusetts witch trials, and wanted to spotlight witches, outsiders and the misunderstood.

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 ...

Estes Park High School and Thespian Troupe 7284 students are busy rehearsing their latest production, Witches!? In Salem?! by ...