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.

Want to watch 'Salem Witch Hunt' right from your couch? Figuring out where to stream, rent, buy, or watch how to watch the Charles Annenberg Weingarten directed movie can be tricky so we at Moviefone ...

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 ...

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 Massachusetts community where 20 people suspected of witchcraft were put to death in 1692 unveiled a memorial to 19 of those victims on Wednesday, promising never to forget the tragedy. The ...

Salem, Massachusetts has a checkered, dark yet fascinating history. The site of one of the deadliest cases of moral panic, it is infamous for the rash of Puritan witch hunts in the 17th century, ...

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 ...