DANVERS — After years of neglect to one of the most important sites of the Salem Witch Trials that still stands today, a judge has appointed a receiver to renovate Ingersoll’s Tavern on Hobart Street ...

Few episodes in American history have inspired as much fascination—or as many interpretations—as the Salem witch trials. The 17th-century panic has generated hundreds of nonfiction books and helped ...

An illustration of a court scene during the late-17th century witch trials in Salem, Mass. Christine_Kohler/iStock via Getty Images Plus I teach a course on New England witchcraft trials, and students ...

I teach a course on New England witchcraft trials, and students always arrive with varying degrees of knowledge of what happened in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692. Nineteen people accused of witchcraft ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? The idea of witches had been present in folklore all the way back to the time of the ...

T. H. Matteson, "Examination of a Witch" (1853), oil on canvas, 38 1/2 x 53 9/10 inches (97.8 x 137 cm) (image via Wikimedia Commons) In art history, the Salem witch trials often take the form of the ...

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I visited Salem, Massachusetts, recently with some of my kids. It seemed like an appropriate Halloween kind of trip, despite a lot of the obvious tourist trappings of the town of Salem itself. Like ...

Around 50 years before the infamous Salem witch trials, fear of witches first plagued the colonial people of western Massachusetts. In the enterprising settlement of Springfield, founder and fur ...

(The Conversation) — Dogs appeared several times during testimonies, typically because an accused witch was believed to have had a dog who would do her bidding, or because the devil appeared in the ...