BOSTON - There's a new push to clear the names of all of those accused, arrested or indicted for witchcraft in Massachusetts. Between 1638 and 1693, hundreds were accused, and many were executed, ...

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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 ...

Hundreds of years after hysteria set into colonial America, leading to the hanging of more than a dozen people convicted of witchcraft, ancestors of the accused are working to clear their names. Sara ...

PBS' Secrets of the Dead II revisits the infamous Salem witch trials, to prove that the devil didn't make them do it. It was LSD. Secrets of the Dead II is another go-round for the series that, with ...

The Salem, Mass., witch trials of 1692 may be more famous, but southern Connecticut had its share of similar cases. In Fairfield, Stratford and Stamford, 17th-century witch trails have been documented ...

The great witch hunts of the past took place at times of great fear in the West. Fear was a prerequisite for witch hunts. It still is. There are frightening parallels between the hunt for witches in ...

For at least half a century, at least once every decade in the English-speaking democracies of the West there’s been a moral panic of some sort, usually related to progressive social change. In the ...

SALEM, Mass. -- The Massachusetts community where 20 people suspected of witchcraft were put to death in 1692 unveiled a memorial to 19 of those victims Wednesday, promising never to forget the ...