Almost anyone could be accused of practicing witchcraft in 1692, but specific individuals were singled out for suspicion.

Author S.A. Sizemore's award-winning debut novel, Whispers of the Pale Witch, the first book in the Beckett Coven ...

The Salem Witch Trials were not only about witches. They were about what happens when fear becomes evidence and accusation becomes truth.

Same king, same accusation, two completely different deaths.

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 1648, Margaret Jones, a midwife, became the first person in Massachusetts — the second in New England — to be executed for witchcraft, decades before the infamous Salem witch trials. Nearly four ...

Haylee Gilmore is a writer, artist, and avid book reader based in Pittsburgh, PA. She is a Point Park University graduate in the English Creative Writing Program. Her dream goal is to become a fiction ...

Witches are a big deal in Salem’s modern culture. The city’s association with witchcraft has been capitalized on from films like 1993's “Hocus Pocus” to the annual Halloween festivities that draw in ...

(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 ...