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 ...

Witch trials were not unique to Salem. Europe had undergone a witch-hunting craze from the 15th to the 18th centuries, prosecuting an estimated 100,000 people—mostly women—for accusations of ...

Was a mysterious fungus the spark behind the Salem Witch Trials? Dive into the eerie history, dark grains, and theories that fueled one of history's most infamous cases of hysteria.

Suranne Jones goes on an epic journey to investigate the most infamous witch trials in history and discovers why so many women were accused of witchcraft and what their story means today. Episodes How ...

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 ...