17 th century New England saw its fair share of witch hysteria, with neighbors accusing neighbors of heresy. Some of the most infamous trials played out in Salem, Massachusetts, but as a new ...

Around 50 years before the infamous Salem witch trials, fear of witches first plagued the colonial people of western Massachusetts. In the enterprising settlement of Springfield, founder and fur ...

Bridget Bishop was the first woman executed during the infamous Salem witch trials — and her only real crime may have been being different. In a time when paranoia ruled and suspicion meant death, she ...