The infamous witch trials may have put this Boston suburb on the map, but they’ve also overshadowed much of its magic. Here’s ...

While the Salem witch trials involved trying more than 150 people across the Atlantic Ocean in Europe, where the Little Ice Age also wreaked havoc, about 100,000 people were tried for witchcraft.

“Regardless, the Salem witch trials are a memorial and a warning to what hysteria, ... The Trial of George Jacobs of Salem for Witchcraft by Thompkins H. Matteson, painted in 1855.

Prior to Salem, most witchcraft trials in New England resulted in acquittal. According to Demos, of the 93 documented witch trials that happened before Salem, 16 “witches” were executed . But ...

In Salem, the witch trials are gone—but the tourists aren’t. ... Father Murray said that most visitors to Salem seem to view witchcraft in a spirit that feels more tongue-in-cheek than serious.

Stacy Schiff talks about her new book The Witches: Salem, 1692 and why the trials are a seminal American story.

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 ...

Most people who were accused of witchcraft in Salem were hanged. Witches weren’t burned at the stake in colonial New England, historians told VERIFY.

Witchcraft belief at the time held that witches could send their “spectres,” or spirits, out to do their bidding. ... All around, Salem’s witch trials seem to have been bad for dogs.

Most people who were accused of witchcraft in Salem were hanged. Witches weren’t burned at the stake in colonial New England, historians told VERIFY.