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 ...

Up to 60,000 so-called “witches” are thought to have been executed across Europe during the 1600s and 1700s, with tens of thousands more put on trial. But new research suggests that one English woman ...

In “The Crucible,” playwright Arthur Miller transformed the Salem witch trials of 1692 into a contemporary allegory about enduring human frailty: Our susceptibility to rumor, suspicion, hysteria and, ...

The medieval phenomena of witch trials and witch hunts loom large in our collective imaginations. A “witch hunt” is a political term for what one perceives as baseless persecution; anti-communist ...

Real witches aren’t supernatural monsters from horror movies. They’re people like Elizabeth La Barca. Full disclosure — she’s a friend of mine. She’s also the high priestess of a pagan coven. “It’s ...

New England is full of legends. For over a decade, Tony Dunne and Jeff Belanger have been collecting and sharing those legends and the real stories behind them through the series “New England Legends.

Possession, gender, and power -- Discerning demonic and witchcraft-possession in early modern England -- Engendering English witchcraft-possession: the Samuel Family in Warboys -- Disputing possession ...

Sitting in one of Wellesley College professor Julie Walsh’s most in-demand classes — “Philosophy and Witchcraft” — you might envision historic Salem and conjure up the image of a witch trial. But ...

BOSTON (AP) — It took more than three centuries, but the last Salem “witch” who wasn’t has been officially pardoned. Massachusetts lawmakers on Thursday formally exonerated Elizabeth Johnson Jr., ...