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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

While Salem is the most infamous setting, witch hunts and trials existed throughout the Massachusetts Bay Colony and parts of what would later become Connecticut and Maine.

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.

Becky Nurse of Salem by Sarah Ruhl has now been published from TCG Books. This play is a wry, innovative reckoning with the legacy of the Salem witch trials from one of America’s foremost ...

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.