Sarah Jessica Parker discovered that her 10th great-grandmother, Esther Elwell, was formally accused in the Salem Witch Trials. No October is complete without a viewing of Hocus Pocus, and some ...

It was then she learned about accused witch Sarah Clayes, her house and the area's connection to the Salem witch trials. "The story really kind of caught me," Thompson said.

In 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts, mass hysteria rang out as teen girls began acting erratically, citing witches were to blame. What followed is a terrifying slew of accusations, trials and executions.

Sarah Jessica Parker famously plays a witch — the spells, the brooms and the general running "amok, amok, amok" — in the 1993 Halloween classic Hocus Pocus. Her character, the ditzy and flirty ...

Jesse Williams was surprised to learn that one of his ancestors played a significant role in the Salem witch trials in a Season 10 episode of "Finding Your Roots." ... Martha Corey and Sarah Good.

In 2022, lawmakers exonerated Elizabeth Johnson Jr., clearing her name 329 years after she was convicted of witchcraft in 1693 and sentenced to death at the height of the Salem witch trials.

The Boston grave site of Samuel Sewall, a judge in the 1692-1693 Salem witch trials. (Steve LeBlanc/AP) In 1711, colonial leaders passed a bill clearing the names of some convicted in Salem.

Built in the 1670s, the tan, paint-chipped building at 199 Hobart St. was where the first three accused witches of the Salem Witch Trials — Tituba, Sarah Osborne and Sarah Good — were to be ...

Jesse Williams was surprised to learn that one of his ancestors played a significant role in the Salem witch trials in a Season 10 episode of "Finding Your Roots.". The secret was unearthed when ...

Sarah Jessica Parker famously plays a witch — the spells, the brooms and the general running "amok, amok, amok" — in the 1993 Halloween classic Hocus Pocus.Her character, the ditzy and flirty ...