BOSTON - There's a new push to clear the names of all of those accused, arrested or indicted for witchcraft in Massachusetts. Between 1638 and 1693, hundreds were accused, and many were executed, ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Religious witch hunts remain a common — if not well-publicized — occurrence in countries around ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Seventy-eight percent of the people executed for witchcraft in New England in the late 17th and early 18th centuries were women.

PBS' Secrets of the Dead II revisits the infamous Salem witch trials, to prove that the devil didn't make them do it. It was LSD. Secrets of the Dead II is another go-round for the series that, with ...

The Salem, Mass., witch trials of 1692 may be more famous, but southern Connecticut had its share of similar cases. In Fairfield, Stratford and Stamford, 17th-century witch trails have been documented ...

For at least half a century, at least once every decade in the English-speaking democracies of the West there’s been a moral panic of some sort, usually related to progressive social change. In the ...