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SALEM turn “Hologram,” from These New Puritans’s recent Hidden album into something druggy and romantic. The remix appears on the upcoming “Hologram” single. Have a slow listen: These ...
When four young girls from Salem Village began having mysterious fits in 1692, they accused Bishop of sending her spirit to ...
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 hysteria that was the foundation for the infamous persecution of witches in 1692 has contemporary echoes in how ‘witch hunts’ form today.
Writer Lori Stokes helps clear up five myths on Puritans. ... From the first witchcraft trial in New England in 1638 to the last in 1697, excluding Salem, 65 people were tried, ...
Today’s Salem is a strange place, at once alluring and off-putting. This former haunt of terrified, grudge-holding (and doomed) Puritans bursts with witch museums, statues, tours, workshops ...
That's the spooky idea Linnda R. Caporael floated in her 1976 paper Ergotism: The Satan Loosed In Salem.In search of a concrete explanation for the witch-hunting mania, she stumbled upon a theory ...
Elizabeth Johnson Jr. is — officially — not a witch. Until last week, the Andover, Mass., woman, who confessed to practicing witchcraft during the Salem witch trials, was the only remaining ...
The Salem remix of "Hologram" appears on the "Hologram" single, out August 9 on Angular. Salem's own debut album, King Night , drops September 28 via IAMSOUND .