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. An illustration of a court scene during the late-17th century witch trials in Salem, Mass. Christine_Kohler/iStock via Getty ...

Salem, Massachusetts, is widely known as the Witch City due to its central role in the tragic Salem Witch Trials of 1692-1693 ...

Discover the fascinating and tragic story of Tituba, the enslaved woman at the center of the Salem Witch Trials hysteria.

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

(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 ...