During the 17th-century Finnmark witch trials, 91 people were executed in Norway's northernmost region, mainly by burning at the stake ...

The Salem witch trials took place in a period of New England history when women were accused of being witches. These accusations were deadly in some cases. It wasn’t until 2022 that the last woman ...

Today’s Salem is a strange place, at once alluring and off-putting. This former haunt of terrified, grudge-holding (and doomed) Puritans bursts with witch museums, statues, tours, workshops, gift ...

In 1617, a winter storm in Norway sparked the Finnmark witch trials, leading to the burning of 91 people at the stake. It was ...

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 ...

WINDSOR, Conn. (WFSB) - Long before Salem became synonymous with America’s witch trial hysteria, the first known execution for witchcraft in the American colonies took place in Connecticut. The year ...

When a piece of furniture has survived for nearly 350 years, you know it has some history, but one such cabinet may have the ...

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 ...

BOSTON — 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.

BOSTON (AP) — 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.

Forget medicine, when this Puritan minister found his children seeming unwell in February of 1692, it sparked what is now considered one of the darkest passages in early American history: The Salem ...

SALEM, Mass. — A piece of Salem witch trials history is hitting the auction block next week. Swann Auction Galleries, based in New York City, is gearing up for a "Printed and Manuscript Americana" ...