The Moravians living in Salem were the first North Carolinians to celebrate Independence Day. But theirs was a Day of ...

Yet the series of witch trials that stand out the most are those that occurred in Salem over the course of several months in the early 1690s. Between 144 and 185 women, children, and men were accused ...

The accused never denied witchcraft existed – they denied being part of it. Mary Easty’s calm, reasoned plea exposed cracks ...

Daniels and her 13-year-old daughter are both practicing witches, and she said she previously studied with a voodoo priest in New Orleans and trained to be a paranormal investigator.

Local News Salem witches to honor special guest (and fellow witch) Stormy Daniels “The persecution those witches felt hundreds of years ago feels very familiar to me.” Markus Schreiber / AP, File ...

What The Evidence Really Says About The Role Of Dogs At the Salem Witch Trials It was 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts. Witches were on trial — but so were the town’s dogs.

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 ...

Published: October 15, 2024 8:29am EDT An illustration of a court scene during the late-17th century witch trials in Salem, Mass. Christine_Kohler/iStock via Getty Images Plus ...

On May 16, 1692, a 45-year-old Amesbury, Massachusetts, man named John Kimball testified against Susanna Martin, a 71-year-old widow, saying, among other things, that she had caused a “black ...