Posterity has treated few characters in the Salem witch trial drama as poorly as Tituba, a woman enslaved in the household of...
If someone asked if you knew of any famous Salem witch trials descendants, you might come up with Nathaniel Hawthorne. The 19th-century...
The year 1656 wasn’t the first time Mary Bliss Parsons of Northampton was accused of witchcraft. Nineteen years later, in 1675, she...
Plenty of people in early New England were persecuted for witchcraft, and not just in Salem, Mass. Witches had troubled the European...
Virtually the entire town of Hampton, N.H., believed Eunice Cole was a witch. Town officials hauled her into court to face charges...
Our story of Cotton Mather and Joseph Dudley begins in 1686. Cotton Mather has just assumed leadership of the Second Church of...