Such is the context for the Peabody Essex Museum’s restrained and scholarly installation, “The Salem Witch Trials 1692.” “You can walk down Essex Street and get your witch hat and your ...

In Salem Village, Massachusetts, February 1692, Betty Parris, age 9 and Abigail Williams, age 11, the daughters and niece of Reverend Samuel Parris became ill. Their health failed to improve and ...

This essay closely examines the chronological and geographic scope of the Salem witchcraft outbreak of 1692, the only mass witch hunt in American history. Drawing upon data about 152 accused witches ...

Salem, Mass. Today’s Salem is a strange place, at once alluring and off-putting. This former haunt of terrified, grudge-holding (and doomed) Puritans bursts with witch museums, statues, tours ...