Smithsonian Magazine

A Brief History of the Salem Witch Trials

The Salem witch trials occurred in colonial Massachusetts between early 1692 and mid-1693. More than 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft—the devil’s magic—and 20 were executed. In 1711, ...
Connecticut Post

How America’s witch trials began in Connecticut, predating Salem by a generation

Connecticut colony earned its reputation as the fiercest witch prosecutor in New England nearly a half-century before the infamous Salem witch trials. For decades in the 1600s, an accusation of ...
CNN

Salem’s witches were pardoned, but Britain’s weren’t. There’s now a movement to change that

While the women accused in the infamous Salem witch trials in colonial America have long since been pardoned, the convictions of hundreds of British women executed under similar laws officially still ...