After Mr. McQueen learned that he was her descendant, he created the 2007 collection “In Memory of Elizabeth How, Salem 1692,” which exalted the symbols of witchcraft.

SALEM, Mass. — Driving into Witch City, U.S.A., you can’t help but notice the people in costumes pouring out of the train station. Many wear pointy hats. Some wear all black. Others carry ...

“The persecution those witches felt hundreds of years ago feels very familiar to me.” The post Salem witches to honor special guest (and fellow witch) Stormy Daniels appeared first on Boston.com.

Elizabeth Johnson Jr., a woman convicted of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials in the 1690s, was finally exonerated after years of petitioning by Massachusetts teacher Carrie LaPierre and ...

Witch trials were not unique to Salem. Europe had undergone a witch-hunting craze from the 15th to the 18th centuries, prosecuting an estimated 100,000 people—mostly women—for accusations of ...

Thomas Satterwhite Noble, Witch Hill (The Salem Martyr), 1869.Collection of the New-York Historical Society, gift of the children of Thomas S. Noble and Mary C. Noble, in their memory, 1939.

Salem is having a moment. This past July, Massachusetts passed a lot that officially exonerated Elizabeth Johnson, Jr., the last person accused of being a witch. On Oct. 7, an exhibit opened at ...

In the case of Carrie LaPierre's eighth grade class at North Andover Middle School, it inspired a sojourn into the Salem Witch Trials of the 17th Century, where innocent women were put to death ...

Johnson was accused of witchcraft in 1692 along with more than 200 other women and men in Salem. Of those convicted, 19 were hanged and four others died in prison -- Johnson was set to be executed ...