The Salem Witch Trials prove how fear can spiral out of control. It started with a few strange accusations, but soon, ...

On this day in 1690, "Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick" attracted colonial officials' ire by repeating a scandalous rumor and condemning a British alliance with the Mohawk Meilan ...

In the years before King James VI of Scotland inherited the English throne too, he oversaw a rather brutal witch trial that would go down in history as one of Europe's bloodiest. Visitors to North ...

The 300-year-old book of witch trials held in Bury St Edmunds will go on display later this month A 300-year-old rare book that details events said to have inspired the infamous Salem Witch Trials ...

The Crucible” is a dramatization of the Salem Witch Trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692-1693. American playwright Arthur Miller penned the play as an allegory for ...