During the 17th-century Finnmark witch trials, 91 people were executed in Norway's northernmost region, mainly by burning at the stake ...

In 1617, a winter storm in Norway sparked the Finnmark witch trials, leading to the burning of 91 people at the stake. It was ...

The Ann Rogers Clark Chapter if the DAR had a very interesting meeting last weekend with the program led by Diane Stepro from ...

1711 Ireland: A Witch's Fate is one of the first productions launched at Studio Ulster [Ulster University] It is a centuries-old gruesome tale of fear, horror, injustice and alleged witchcraft in ...

Seventy-eight percent of the people executed for witchcraft in New England in the late 17th and early 18th centuries were women. Jef Thompson/Shutterstock.com When powerful men cry witch, they’re ...

When a piece of furniture has survived for nearly 350 years, you know it has some history, but one such cabinet may have the ...

What happens when a teacher inspires her students to take on history? In the case of Carrie LaPierre's eighth grade class at North Andover Middle School, it inspired a sojourn into the Salem Witch ...

As everyone is aware, suffering at the hands of others is hardly new. They identified a formula that I thought was interesting: Fear + trigger = scapegoat. In this case, the fear was God/devil with ...

Salem, Massachusetts, 1692: It's an early entry in American history that is not soon forgotten, between references in modern media (Witches of East End, anyone?), and use of the phrase "witch hunt" in ...

With fall in full swing, New Englanders everywhere are picking the last apples of the season and starting to prepare for Halloween. At Massachusetts' oldest apple orchard, you can do both. Founded ...