Here are some of the best things to do for a Salem, Massachusetts, Halloween trip Fun activities for a Salem, Massachusetts, Halloween trip For those who love leaf-peeping, pumpkin spice anything and ...

When four young girls from Salem Village began having mysterious fits in 1692, they accused Bishop of sending her spirit to ...

In Salem, the witch trials are gone—but the tourists aren’t. Here’s how a local Catholic priest welcomes them.

The infamous witch trials may have put this Boston suburb on the map, but they’ve also overshadowed much of its magic. Here’s ...

It took more than 300 years, but the story of a forgotten woman convicted in the Salem witch trials has finally been told. And it took my eighth-grade civics class to tell it.

I teach a course on New England witchcraft trials, and students always arrive with varying degrees of knowledge of what happened in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692. Nineteen people accused of ...

The Connecticut Witch Trials occurred from 1647 to 1663, more than four decades before the trials in Salem, Massachusetts. “The witch trials in Connecticut were extremely deadly.

Why This Monument Offers Some Humanity to the Tragedy of the Salem Witch Trials Now, 330 years after the executions, visitors to this seaside city will find a simple, peaceful memorial next to an ...

Some 375 years after the state’s witch trials, historians and descendants from a witch exoneration group are championing a resolution that would apologize to those accused of witchcraft.

(The Conversation) — Dogs appeared several times during testimonies, typically because an accused witch was believed to have had a dog who would do her bidding, or because the devil appeared in ...