People often associate witch trials with victims being burned at the stake. The Salem Witch Trials, and any other trials that ...

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 ...

In the late 1600s, hundreds of people were accused of practicing witchcraft in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Twenty of those accused witches were executed during what is now known as the Salem witch ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Salem witch trials occurred in colonial Massachusetts between early 1692 and mid-1693. More than 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft—the devil’s magic—and 20 were executed. In 1711, ...

SALEM, MA -- A team of researchers using historical documents and 21st-century archaeological techniques has confirmed the site where 19 innocent people were hanged during the Salem witch trials more ...

(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 ...

MONROE, La. (KNOE) - On Sept. 22, 1692 after months of trials, accusations and testimony, the last eight women convicted of witchcraft were hanged in Salem, Mass. It had started in January, when three ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of a court scene during the late-17th century witch trials in Salem, Mass. Christine_Kohler/iStock via Getty ...