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 ...

In 1692, the colonial town of Salem, Massachusetts, became caught up in a fervor over alleged witchcraft. In her new book “The Witches,” Stacy Schiff explores what led a group of Puritans to ...

Giles Corey, a farmer accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials, pleaded “not guilty.” He didn’t believe he’d achieve a fair trial and refused to speak. He was subsequently ...

The witchcraft installation relies on both ... Tompkins Harrison Matteson painting of Jacobs’s trial. “The Salem Witch Trials 1692” culminates in a memorial wall and a list of restorative ...

Of the accused, 34 people were indicted and 11 were executed for witchcraft. While Salem is famous for its witch trials, Connecticut’s history is a story not often told. “Salem was the tail end.

to determine if they indeed practiced witchcraft. So began the infamous Salem Witch Trials of 1692. Over the following months, more than 150 men and women in and around Salem were jailed on ...

The campaign for the 350 year-old house in Beverly, Massachusetts, brings to life the brutality of bitter winters in Puritan ...

Maryland is the most recent state to introduce legislation to exonerate those convicted of witchcraft centuries ago. But why now?

Witches are very rarely featured as antagonists in horror games, but when they do make an appearance, they are almost always ...

Later, Cleaves married the daughter of Giles Corey, a farmer accused of witchcraft. In 1692, during the Salem witch trials, Corey was crushed to death. Before his execution, he sold land to Cleaves.

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 ...