Statistics is just one way to tell the tale of the infamous Salem witch trials. In just 16 months between ... had ridden broomsticks and signed a book offered to her by the devil, other girls ...

A teacher focusing on the New England witchcraft trials reveals how dogs were accused of working with the devil in the 17th ...

During the Salem witch trials in colonial Massachusetts, which occurred in 1692, a total of 19 people were accused of ...

The first to exhibit odd behavior was Abigail Williams, the 8-year-old niece of the reverend ... In her landmark paper in Science, Caporael was the first to suggest that the Salem Witch Trials were ...

On this day in 1690, "Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick" attracted colonial officials' ire by repeating a scandalous rumor and condemning a British alliance with the Mohawk Meilan ...

Theories about what sparked the Salem Witch Trials include everything from a hallucinogenic ... of information - led to the proliferation of a book that contained a detailed explanation of ...

One particularly damaging mass-produced book—a text called Malleus Maleficarum ... (The Hammer of Witches ) on view at the Salem Witch Trials exhibit at The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem ...

Jesse Williams was surprised to learn that one of his ancestors played a significant role in the Salem witch trials in a Season 10 episode of "Finding Your Roots." The secret was unearthed when ...

Kirstie Alley leads an all-star cast in a drama recalling the 1692 Puritan witch-hunt that tarnished the Massachusetts village. Rev. Samuel Parris: Henry Czerny. Rebecca Nurse: Shirley MacLaine.

According to local historical researcher Marilynne K. Roach's 2002 book, "The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-by-day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege," some of the afflicted girls claimed that a man ...

(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 ...