SALEM — During a celebration for the upcoming locally filmed documentary “The Last Witch”, Biff Michaud, CEO of the Salem Witch Museum, made a $10,000 contribution toward the film in an effort to help ...

SALEM — An early preview of the locally filmed upcoming documentary feature film “The Last Witch” will be hosted at Turner’s Seafood at Lyceum Hall this Thursday, Feb. 6, at 6 p.m. The film, written ...

Scores of people were imprisoned and executed during the infamous Salem witch trials of the 1600s. Investigators examine the era's rampant anti-witch sentiment from a scientific viewpoint, testing ...

Witchcraft first cast its dark spell in America over Salem, Massachusetts 300 years ago, igniting hysteria, court trials, and burnings at the stake. But the cult of the supernatural could not be ...

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

17 th century New England saw its fair share of witch hysteria, with neighbors accusing neighbors of heresy. Some of the most infamous trials played out in Salem, Massachusetts, but as a new ...

University of Massachusetts provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. I teach a course on New England witchcraft trials, and students always arrive with varying degrees of knowledge of what ...