The Pratt Street event will spotlight Connecticut's own history of witch trials, considered "much harsher" than those in ...

The infamous witch trials may have put this Boston suburb on the map, but they’ve also overshadowed much of its magic. Here’s how to experience everything else Salem has to offer.

Talking cats. Mass hallucinations... from bread? The nearly year-long imprisonment of a toddler. Did the devil really walk ...

The Salem witch trials unfolded between February 1692 and May 1693 in a dark chapter of colonial Massachusetts history. During this harrowing period, over 200 individuals faced accusations of ...

While the Salem witch trials involved trying more than 150 people across the Atlantic Ocean in Europe, where the Little Ice Age also wreaked havoc, about 100,000 people were tried for witchcraft.

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.

Salem, Massachusetts needs no introduction. This New England town is famous for being the site of the 1692 Witch Trials, the first case of recorded mass hysteria in America, and one of the most ...

This Oct. 25, 2023 photo shows the Boston grave site of Samuel Sewall, a judge in the 1692-1693 Salem witch trials who later issued a public confession, taking "the blame and shame of the trials ...

Five women who were hanged as witches more than 330 years ago at Proctor's Ledge during the Salem, Massachusetts, witch trials. Sarah Good, Elizabeth Howe, Susannah Martin, Rebecca Nurse and Sarah ...

More than 150 people were tried during the Salem witch trials, Baker said. Most were locked up in jail for months, and some were sentenced to up to a year or more. Five died in jail, 19 were ...

In 1692 and 1693, the Salem witch trials were held in northeastern Massachusetts and led to the prosecution of more than 150 people.