Maryland is the most recent state to introduce legislation to exonerate those convicted of witchcraft centuries ago. But why ...

From the Wicked Witch of the West to the Sanderson ... applied to the vilifying of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials which occurred between 1692 and 1693. More than 200 people were accused ...

This seriously scary horror flick is wrapped up in the history of the Salem Witch Trials and its legacy ... a young boy who accidentally resurrects three evil witches in Salem, Massachusetts ...

Winsham, a historian specializing in English witchcraft cases, divides the book into three parts -- Witches of Myth and ...

The last proceedings of the Salem Witch Trials in Massachusetts ended in 1693. But 331 years later, religious witch hunts remain a common — if not well-publicized — occurrence in countries ...

Witchcraft had now been linked directly to evil and the Devil ... of trying to kill James and Anne led to the North Berwick witch trials of 1590. Reformers such as Martin Luther in Germany ...

Many believed that water was pure, and would reject evil, so if the person floated ... mentioned as having been used during the 1597 witch trials. In Scotland most witches were executed by ...

The black, red, gray and pink design honors the thousands of individuals—mostly women—who were persecuted under the Scottish Witchcraft Act Sarah Kuta On this day in 1690, "Publick Occurrences ...