In August, the first-ever Connecticut Witch Trials Festival was held on Pratt Street to do just that, educate people about ...

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 ...

While best known for its notorious witch trials in the late 1600s, Salem, Massachusetts, has a lot more to offer. These Salem tours offer an in-depth look at everything related to the trials ...

For a modern audience, the witch trials that took place in the American colonies in the latter half of the 1600s seem to have hinged on the question of whether or not witches were real.

Witches and witch trials remain a source of enduring curiosity. Julie Stone Peters, H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of English ...

“Witchcraft was illegal in ... of demonic sorcery during the Salem Witch Trials, which filled the colony’s courts throughout much of the 1600s. The Maryland resolution has garnered support ...

The 300-year-old book of witch trials held in Bury St Edmunds will go on display later this month A 300-year-old rare book that details events said to have inspired the infamous Salem Witch Trials ...

Towards the end of the 1600s, though, more people had did have ... The Great Witch Hunt of 1661-2 saw attitudes to witch trials changing. Judges were becoming more sceptical about evidence ...