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A knock comes at your door in the middle of the night. Your neighbors are gathered outside. Someone points a finger and makes ...

Almost anyone could be accused of practicing witchcraft in 1692, but specific individuals were singled out for suspicion.

T. H. Matteson, "Examination of a Witch" (1853), oil on canvas, 38 1/2 x 53 9/10 inches (97.8 x 137 cm) (image via Wikimedia Commons) In art history, the Salem witch trials often take the form of the ...

I teach a course on New England witchcraft trials, and students always arrive with varying degrees of knowledge of what happened in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692. Nineteen people accused of witchcraft ...

Everyone has heard of the 1692 Salem Witchcraft Trials, but most do not realize that they were named after Salem because that ...

I teach a course on New England witchcraft trials, and students always arrive with varying degrees of knowledge of what happened in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692. Nineteen people accused of witchcraft ...

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 ...

Good Omens captured fans' imagination with its depiction of the cosmic order, but its interpretation of witches comes from a ...

(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 ...