Discover the fascinating and tragic story of Tituba, the enslaved woman at the center of the Salem Witch Trials hysteria. This historical deep dive explores how her testimony, cultural background, and ...

When a piece of furniture has survived for nearly 350 years, you know it has some history, but one such cabinet may have the most macabre historical story of them all. The history of a small, ...

Aerial view of Vardo, Norway, the fishing town at the center of the 17th-century Finnmark witch trials Timo Noko via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 2.0 On Christmas Eve in 1617, sailors in Finnmark, ...

Four new books offer readers a rich volume of cartoons with “Far Side”-level wit, but also go deep on a diverse array of real-life figures, from Afrobeat megastar Fela to the infamous Mitford sisters ...

Riley Rourke is a digital producer for CBS Boston. She has worked at WBZ-TV since graduating from Emerson College in 2023. It was a night of ghosts and gusts in Salem, Massachusetts as visitors from ...

NORTH ANDOVER — As tens of thousands of revelers descend on Salem, every Halloween because of the witch trials of 1692 and 1693, towns in the Merrimack Valley have stories seldom heard, including ...

While the women accused in the infamous Salem witch trials in colonial America have long since been pardoned, the convictions of hundreds of British women executed under similar laws officially still ...

This project was supported by Cardiff University's On Campus internship scheme. The authors would like to thank student interns Abigail Heneghan and Gabriel Hyde for creating the memorial database and ...

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CONCORD, N.H. — New Hampshire is often overlooked when it comes to witchcraft, despite its own thorny history of accusing women of practicing the forbidden form of magic. That’s according to historian ...