This 1892 illustration from Harper’s Magazine shows a courtroom scene, with a crowd accusing two young girls. Like many during the Salem witch trials, the girls’ youth reflects the ...

Arthur Miller’s 1953 play is a bona fide modern classic, its study of hysteria and herd behaviour – filtering the paranoia of mid-20th century McCarthyism through the Salem Witch Trials in ...

Was a mysterious fungus the spark behind the Salem Witch Trials? Dive into the eerie history, dark grains, and theories that fueled one of history's most infamous cases of hysteria. Donald Trump's ...

From witch trials and brutal punishments to secret knowledge and survival tactics, we break down what life might have been like if you were branded as someone with supernatural powers. The ...

and Phips immediately “put a stop to the proceedings” of the Salem Witch Trials. Meanwhile, prosecution of “King William’s War” had not gone well, and Sir William Phips, the royal ...

Some have said the current assault on American universities is the worst since the McCarthyite purges of the 1940s and 1950s. It’s actually much worse. McCarthyism targeted individuals with ...

This New England coastal town is renowned for the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 resulting in the hanging death of 20 residents accused of practicing witchcraft. Salem is packed with spooky, haunted and ...

By comparison the 1692 Salem witch trials saw 200 accused, 19 killed, and a hasty recognition that it was a big mistake and miscarriage of justice. Whereas in Scotland the trials were led from the ...

Machielsen noted the contrast with the Salem Witch Trials, where survivors had their names cleared in the immediate aftermath and in 1711 received financial compensation from the Province of ...

In 1692, the colonial town of Salem, Massachusetts, became caught up in a fervor over alleged witchcraft. In her new book “The Witches,” Stacy Schiff explores what led a group of Puritans to ...

The Salem Witch Trials are one of the most important tales of the United States’ early days and proves what happens when hysteria meets the desire to see others to harm for no apparent reason.

Ubisoft has only gone so far as to describe Hexe as "a very different Assassin's Creed game," with speculating fans pointing to hints that Hexe might be set during the German witch trials.