In 1648, Margaret Jones, a midwife, became the first person in Massachusetts — the second in New England — to be executed for witchcraft, decades before the infamous Salem witch trials.

a Puritan minister during the Salem witch trials, reflects the fear and fervor that fueled the persecution of alleged witches in colonial Massachusetts. Ultimately, Marshall says, “only a small ...

All of this speaks to a broader public fascination with the Salem witch trials. According to Emerson Baker, author of A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience ...

A new book How to Kill a Witch brings a dark period of history back to grisly life – and an official tartan is being released ...

The Springfield Museums' latest exhibit explores the events that occured four decades before Salem's infamous witch trials ...

It's clear from the first two episodes of Agatha All Along that Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn) has a reputation that proceeds her. It is rather difficult to top a witch who survived her own trial ...

New England saw its fair share of witch hysteria, with neighbors accusing neighbors of heresy. Some of the most infamous ...

Indeed, Reverend Parris condemned the ritual, which itself seemed to be its own kind of witchcraft. All around, Salem’s witch trials seem to have been bad for dogs. Although there is no official ...

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.

Boston Globe//Getty Images A copy of the Malleus Maleficarum (The Hammer of Witches ) on view at the Salem Witch Trials exhibit at The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA on Sept. 24, 2020.

it inspired a sojourn into the Salem Witch Trials of the 17th Century, where innocent women were put to death because they were falsely thought to be witches. And now, as a result of the students ...