A knock comes at your door in the middle of the night. Your neighbors are gathered outside. Someone points a finger and makes ...

Almost anyone could be accused of practicing witchcraft in 1692, but specific individuals were singled out for suspicion.

The Salem witch trials took place in a period of New England history when women were accused of being witches. These accusations were deadly in some cases. It wasn't until 2022 that the last woman ...

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 ...

Haylee Gilmore is a writer, artist, and avid book reader based in Pittsburgh, PA. She is a Point Park University graduate in the English Creative Writing Program. Her dream goal is to become a fiction ...

The Manninen Center for the Arts at Endicott College came alive Tuesday night with a dark period in the colonial history of ...

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 ...

Witches are a big deal in Salem’s modern culture. The city’s association with witchcraft has been capitalized on from films like 1993's “Hocus Pocus” to the annual Halloween festivities that draw in ...

How does a Catholic priest minister in a town famous for its devotion to the occult? Well, first you try to be a good neighbor. “We open the church, we invite people in, we allow them to use our ...

Fact: One of the first women to be accused of witchcraft in Salem was a Black enslaved woman named Tituba Indian. So who was Tituba? Much of what we know about her comes from the infamous testimony ...