Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While the women accused in the infamous Salem witch trials in colonial America have long since been pardoned, the convictions of ...

The Salem witch trials occurred in colonial Massachusetts between early 1692 and mid-1693. More than 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft—the devil’s magic—and 20 were executed. In 1711, ...

On this day in 1692, eight people were hanged in Salem, Massachusetts for the crime of witchcraft, the last group executed before the frenzy of the Salem witch trials, which lasted more than a year, ...

The Reverend George Burroughs was just one of 19 people hanged for witchcraft during the hysteria that began in 1692. But while we know where they were executed, the final resting places of nearly all ...

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 ...

While the women accused in the infamous Salem witch trials in colonial America have long since been pardoned, the convictions of hundreds of British women executed under similar laws officially still ...