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 ...

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 ...

Lancaster Castle was central to the Pendle Witch Trials of 1612, a pivotal moment in English history linked to King James I's ...

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

Two Scottish authors and podcasters will be at Citizens Library in Washington on Wednesday, Oct. 22, to talk about 16th century witch trials. Zoe Venditozzi and Clair Mitchell, the hosts of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SALEM, MA -- A team of researchers using historical documents and 21st-century archaeological techniques has confirmed the site where 19 innocent people were hanged during the Salem witch trials more ...

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 ...