When four young girls from Salem Village began having mysterious fits in 1692, they accused Bishop of sending her spirit to ...

The witch trial craze in Salem Village faded in 1693, possibly due in part to the public stance taken by prominent anti-witch-trial figures like Puritan minister Cotton Mather. ( Witch hunt ...

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 ...

DANVERS, Mass., Aug. 31. -- Salem and Danvers, of witchcraft distinction, centre all the enthusiasm of Summer visitors that is not expended on Hawthorne associations about those weird days of 1692.

Trump, indeed, echoed the Puritan witch hunts’ demonization and condemnation of women when he called Hillary Clinton, “evil” and deserving of being locked up; Kamala Harris, “a deranged ...

The trials of Salem, a Puritan community in Massachusetts, lasted a little over a year, from February 1692 to May 1693. In that time, more than 200 people were accused, ...

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 ...

In 1692 and 1693, the Salem witch trials were held in northeastern Massachusetts and led to the prosecution of more than 150 people. In 1692 and 1693, ...

More than 150 people were tried during the Salem witch trials, Baker said. Most were locked up in jail for months, and some were sentenced to up to a year or more.