Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this 1869 oil painting 'Witch Hill (The Salem Martyr)' by Thomas Satterwhite Noble, the young woman posing as a condemned witch ...

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 ...

In the winter of 1692, a nine-year-old girl and her eleven-year-old cousin began having violent fits inside a parsonage in ...

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While best known for its notorious witch trials in the late 1600s, Salem, Massachusetts, has a lot more to offer. These Salem ...

Once upon a time, being labelled a witch in Salem might have guaranteed a one-way ticket to the gallows. This was, after all, ...

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An illustration of a court scene during the late-17th century witch trials in Salem, Mass. Christine_Kohler/iStock via Getty Images Plus I teach a course on New England witchcraft trials, and students ...