In the mid-1970s, Linnda Caporael was a college student facing a seemingly mundane decision. A science major at U.C. Santa ...

Numerous people were accused of being werewolves and executed in Europe in the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries. Some of them ...

In 1648, Margaret Jones, a midwife, became the first person in Massachusetts — the second in New England — to be executed for witchcraft, decades before the infamous Salem witch trials. Nearly four ...

If you could sit down to dinner in Salem in 1692, the menu might be more familiar than you'd expect. There would have been ...

Some historical events are so disturbing and unfathomable that we tend to process them as fiction. Among the most unsettling are the Salem Witch Trials, which led to the execution of 20 people (15 ...

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 ...

Salem is famous for its witchcraft. Every October, the town dresses itself up in pointed hats and cauldrons. It's tempting to ...

Step back in time in Salem! Though the New England locale may be infamously known for the 1692 Salem Witch Trials, it has ...

Now, 330 years after the executions, visitors to this seaside city will find a simple, peaceful memorial next to an aged colonial graveyard Jill Christiansen, Rachel Christ-Doane It was during the ...

(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 ...