From witch trials and brutal punishments to secret knowledge and survival tactics, we break down what life might have been like if you were branded as someone with supernatural powers. The ...

Statistics is just one way to tell the tale of the infamous Salem witch trials. In just 16 months between February 1692 and May 1693, up to 200 people—mostly women—were accused of practicing ...

Public humiliation, forced submersion, and no way out. The ducking stool was more than punishment—it was control through fear. New Poll Reveals Gavin Newsom’s Approval Rating Dodge Pulls the ...

Ballet 314 co-founder Robert Poe pulled from "The Crucible" and "I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem" craft a new retelling of the witch trial saga.

The teacher, who leads his select honors students through a study of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible ... that classic depiction of the Salem witch trials (and McCarthy-era allegory) to this ...

and Phips immediately “put a stop to the proceedings” of the Salem Witch Trials. Meanwhile, prosecution of “King William’s War” had not gone well, and Sir William Phips, the royal ...

Machielsen noted the contrast with the Salem Witch Trials, where survivors had their names cleared in the immediate aftermath and in 1711 received financial compensation from the Province of ...

In 1692, the colonial town of Salem, Massachusetts, became caught up in a fervor over alleged witchcraft. In her new book “The Witches,” Stacy Schiff explores what led a group of Puritans to ...