Up to 60,000 so-called “witches” are thought to have been executed across Europe during the 1600s and 1700s, with tens of ...

The names of people accused of witchcraft more than 350 years ago in colonial Connecticut may be cleared at last following a long-running campaign by their descendants and lawmakers. The state’s ...

For a modern audience, the witch trials that took place in the American colonies in the latter half of the 1600s seem to have hinged on the question of whether or not witches were real.