In the winter of 1692, a nine-year-old girl and her eleven-year-old cousin began having violent fits inside a parsonage in Salem Village, Massachusetts. They screamed, threw objects, contorted their ...

Could a fungus have been behind the Salem witch trials? Mass hallucinations and paranoia. Seizures and bodily convulsions. From 1692 to 1693, the town of Salem in the Massachusetts Bay Colony tried ...

The Salem Witch Trials were not only about witches. They were about what happens when fear becomes evidence and accusation becomes truth.

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 ...

Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Share on X (Opens in new window) Copy this page's address to your clipboard Link copied to clipboard In 1692 the god-fearing Puritans of Salem, MA—possessed by ...

Chris Rock drew what he called a “half a joke” comparison between “wokeness” and the Salem witch trials, arguing both went ...

Barring fictional characters, a slave named Tituba is America's most famous "witch." She was there at Ground Zero in the case of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. But because she was a slave, her ...

Back in a time when people lived in genuine fear of malevolent witchcraft, those given responsibility for finding and prosecuting supposed witches concocted all manner of bizarre methods and tests for ...

17 th century New England saw its fair share of witch hysteria, with neighbors accusing neighbors of heresy. Some of the most infamous trials played out in Salem, Massachusetts, but as a new ...

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 ...