Tulia's witch trials A drug sting case in a small Texas town shows how drug war paranoia can feed the fires of injustice. By Arianna Huffington. Published October 11, 2000 8:00AM (EDT) -- ...

It’s hard to imagine a more nightmarish experience than being at the center of a classic witch trial: accused of obscure misdeeds by your neighbors, defending yourself against the looking-glass ...

Tourism in Salem is wild with 100,000 visitors descending on this historic Massachusetts town on any given day. Traffic is gridlocked, and there are virtually no parking spaces left. The ...

Goodwife Knapp, a New Haven housewife, died on the gallows in 1653, hanged for being a witch. Unusual-looking moles determined to be “witch’s teats” brought about Knapp’s de… ...

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A new book How to Kill a Witch brings a dark period of history back to grisly life – and an official tartan is being released to memorialise some of those who were tortured and killed.

In 2022, lawmakers exonerated Elizabeth Johnson Jr., clearing her name 329 years after she was convicted of witchcraft in 1693 and sentenced to death at the height of the Salem witch trials.

The bill acknowledges that more than 300 years after the witch trials in the U.S., historians, and society agree the accused and convicted individuals were innocent.

Jennet's evidence in the 1612 Pendle witch trial in Lancashire led to the execution of 10 people, including all of her own family. In England at that time paranoia was endemic.

At least 34 people were accused or convicted of witchcraft during the trials in Connecticut, which lasted from 1647 to 1697. By their end, 11 people — two men and nine women — had been hanged ...