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 just 16 months between February 1692 and May 1693, up to 200 people—mostly women—were accused of practicing witchcraft in colonial Salem, Massachusetts. Of those 200, there were 30 ...

Eight years ago, when they bought their house overlooking a wooded ledge in Salem, Massachusetts ... So when people began to stop by and take pictures of the empty site last winter, they wondered ...

But the statues to Hannah Duston — one in Massachusetts where she grips a ... who also played a role in the infamous Salem witch trials, simply sensationalized those and other details.

SALEM — A statewide celebration of the ... 250 years after the British made Witch City the proxy capital of Massachusetts. Colonial reenactors will gather on Derby Wharf from 10 a.m. to 4 ...

Salem, Massachusetts is infamous for a dark period in colonial history: the witch trials of the 1690s. More than 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft, and, by the end of it ...

In 1692, the colonial town of Salem, Massachusetts, became caught up in a fervor over alleged witchcraft. In her new book “The Witches,” Stacy Schiff explores what led a group of Puritans to ...

The claim is fairly old and has been spotted in movies like “Burned at the Stake” (1982) and “I Married a Witch” (1942), both of which depicted witches in colonial Salem, Massachusetts ...

In the late 1600s, hundreds of people were accused of practicing witchcraft in the Massachusetts Bay ... convicted of witchcraft in Salem and throughout colonial New England were not burned ...