While Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed to be a victim of political witch hunts, all concrete evidence to the contrary, his entire campaign against “the enemy within,” or “the deep state,” has been ...

The new film "The Witch" is a grim tale. It takes place in 1630s New England, a few decades before the Salem witch trials. The film follows a family of English Puritans. They've come to the New World ...

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.

HAMMOND, La. (WGNO) — There’s supposed to be food, frolicking and fun at the Louisiana Renaissance Festival, which recreates the 14th through 17th Century Renaissance period. WGNO found one woman, who ...

June 10 marks the anniversary of Bridget Bishop's hanging in 1692 for being a convicted witch, the first of 19 hangings in Salem, Massachusetts. (Some accounts put the total at 20 people executed.) ...

King James I had a morbid fear of violent death. His mother, Mary Queen of Scots, was beheaded by Elizabeth I. In 1605, there was an assassination attempt using a Brobdingnagian cache of gunpowder.

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 ...

The Salem witch trials were the largest witchcraft outbreak in American history, resulting from a perfect storm of catastrophes. Taking place in 1692 and 1693, the Salem witch trials were held in ...