Seventy-eight percent of the people executed for witchcraft in New England in the late 17th and early 18th centuries were women. Jef Thompson/Shutterstock.com When powerful men cry witch, they’re ...

What happens when a teacher inspires her students to take on history? In the case of Carrie LaPierre's eighth grade class at North Andover Middle School, it inspired a sojourn into the Salem Witch ...

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In our current frightening times, powerful men are once again trying to demonise the powerless but the written word provides ...

In the prologue to 1994’s Witchcraze: A New History of the European Witch Hunts, author Anne Llewellyn Barstow observes, “The longer I have worked on these sixteenth- and seventeenth-century events, ...

* Witch trials had been a part of English life for centuries, and Parliament had passed a law in 1542 criminalizing the practice of witchcraft. In 1597, Scottish King James VI (later crowned James I ...

A rare book that was once owned by Samuel Sewall, one of the judges involved in the Salem witchcraft trials, is ready to be sold to the highest bidder. While he may be best known for his role in 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 ...