The Salem Witch Trials Memorial is lined with the pleas of the victims. Photo by Charlie Weber. It was during the exceedingly hot summer of 1692 when Puritan judges in Salem, an English settlement ...

When four young girls from Salem Village began having mysterious fits in 1692, they accused Bishop of sending her spirit to ...

Salem Witch Trials Memorial is ranked #3 out of 14 things to do in Salem, MA. See pictures and our review of Salem Witch Trials Memorial.

I moved to Salem for grad school in 2013. I first got a job doing tours at the Witch House, which is the only remaining structure you can visit in Salem with any ties to the Salem witch trials.

One of the two churches that comprise Father Murray’s parish, Immaculate Conception Church, sits less than a two-minute walk from the Salem Witch Trials Memorial, a small park that houses locust ...

Especially powerful is the Salem Witch Trials Memorial, dedicated during the 1992 tercentenary. A rectangular park-like space, it is flanked by stone benches dedicated to the victims, ...

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 ...

SALEM — A powerful moment emerged at the Salem Witch Trials memorial this past weekend, but it would’ve only been caught by those reading scraps of paper left behind.

The Boston grave site of Samuel Sewall, a judge in the 1692-1693 Salem witch trials. (Steve LeBlanc/AP) In 1711, colonial leaders passed a bill clearing the names of some convicted in Salem.

The Connecticut Witch Trials occurred from 1647 to 1663, more than four decades before the trials in Salem, Massachusetts. “The witch trials in Connecticut were extremely deadly.