The 1692-93 trials began with the afflictions and ... It cites tensions between rural Salem Village and mercantile Salem Town, political uncertainties, conflicts with Native Americans and the ...

Salem, Massachusetts is best known for the Witch Trials of 1692. That history turned the small town into a Halloween destination, with more than 1 million people flocking there in the month of October ...

On March 1, 1692, Salem, Massachusetts, authorities interrogated Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and an Indian slave, Tituba, to determine if they indeed practiced witchcraft. So began the infamous ...

In 1692, the colonial town of Salem, Massachusetts, became caught up in a fervor over alleged witchcraft. In her new book “The Witches,” Stacy Schiff explores what led a group of Puritans to ...