Witches and witch trials remain a source of enduring curiosity. Julie Stone Peters, H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of English ...

Theatre Guild Valdosta presents Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible,” 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, Feb. 13-15; 2 p.m.

The Crucible” is a dramatization of the Salem Witch Trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692-1693. American playwright Arthur Miller penned the play as an allegory for ...

While the judicial machinery of early modern witch-hunting could work with terrifying swiftness, skepticism and evidentiary barriers often made conviction difficult. Seeking proof strong enough to ...

The Ducking stool was a 16th and 17th Century form of punishment derived from the earlier Cucking stool. The Ducking stool ...

The books recounts the witch trials historians believe inspired the Salem trials in the United States of America.

The 300-year-old book of witch ... trial itself. Mr Clarke said the book was "fascinating" as it was also published the same year of the last witch execution of Mary Hicks in Huntingdon, in modern ...

IT was Tuesday, April 23 1658 when accused witch Janet Sawer was brought ... Bessie too met a grim fate at the end of her trial. You can contact RAWS to give your own ideas on how the victims of such ...

According to information from the Chester County History Center, William Penn presided over the state’s only official witch trial in 1684 and the woman was found not guilty. However, English and ...