The Salem witch trials occurred in colonial Massachusetts between early 1692 and mid-1693. More than 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft—the devil’s magic—and 20 were executed. In 1711, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While the women accused in the infamous Salem witch trials in colonial America have long since been pardoned, the convictions of ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. On this day in 1692, eight people were ...

The black, red, gray and pink design honors the thousands of individuals—mostly women—who were persecuted under the Scottish Witchcraft Act On This Day in History On this day in 1690, “Publick ...

What do actress Jean Smart and the Salem Witch Trials have in common? More than you would think!

(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 ...

Three hundred and thirty-three (half of another number of note) years ago, there was trouble in Salem, Massachusetts. Twenty-five people were killed, and about another hundred and fifty were ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Seventy-eight percent of the people executed for witchcraft in New England in the late 17th and early 18th centuries were women.

A Biblical "concordance" belonging to a judge from the Salem Witch Trials is up for auction tomorrow, Aug. 27 A "concordance" is a sort of reference book The item will be auctioned online on the ...

Should you find your way up to Salem, Mass., this Halloween season, your chances of encountering a psychic are up — and the odds that that he or she has a felony record are down. That, for those of ...