In Salem Village, Massachusetts, February 1692, Betty Parris, age 9 and Abigail Williams, age 11, the daughters and niece of Reverend Samuel Parris became ill. Their health failed to improve and ...

T.H. Matteson, Examination of a Witch, 1853 Public domain via Wikimedia Commons The Salem witch trials occurred in colonial Massachusetts between early 1692 and mid-1693. More than 200 people were ...

In January 1692, a 9-year-old girl named Elizabeth Parris and an 11-year-old girl named Abigail Williams started behaving abnormally. Both were well-behaved, healthy children until they started ...

As a quest by the townspeople of Salem, Mass. to rid their community of members they believed to be unfit and unholy additions, the 1692-93 Salem witch trials involved a series of hearings and ...

Soon enough a perceived manifestation of this raised its head. 9-year old Betty Paris and 11-year old Abigail Williams, the daughter and niece of the Priest Paris, began having violent fits which ...

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Minus another best seller killer book these past 10 minutes, Bill O’Reilly’s coming out now with “Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts.” ...

The Salem witch trials are more than just a ... Elizabeth and 11-year-old niece Abigail Williams ... claimed she and the girls had ridden broomsticks and signed a book offered to her ...

A new book charts the history of horror from the Salem Witch Trials to Stephen King NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Columbia University professor Jeremy Dauber about his new book, "American Scary ...

Soon enough a perceived manifestation of this raised its head. 9-year old Betty Paris and 11-year old Abigail Williams, the daughter and niece of the Priest Paris, began having violent fits which ...