It is a centuries-old gruesome tale of fear, horror, injustice and alleged witchcraft in County Antrim. The infamous Islandmagee witch trials of 1711 have been given a very modern make-over in a ...

Rebecca Fowler was an indentured servant in Annapolis in the late 1600s, working the land for years until she and her husband were finally lucky enough to own a plot of land. However, her luck ran out ...

Salem, Massachusetts, 1692: It's an early entry in American history that is not soon forgotten, between references in modern media (Witches of East End, anyone?), and use of the phrase "witch hunt" in ...

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, ...

ANNAPOLIS — Rebecca Fowler was an indentured servant here in the late 1600s, working the land for years until she and her husband were finally lucky enough to own a plot of land.

Hampton is well known for its beachfront and summer tourism, but did you know the seaside town is also known for witches?Lori Cotter, president of the Hampton Historical Society, said that long before ...

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 ...

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, ...

Something to keep in mind is that witch trials were a means by which political leaders seized property from widows. Greed was an important driving force in the spread of the trials. Click to expand ...