The Salem witch trials are more than just a historical curiosity. ... This 1685 oil on card portrait shows Samuel Parris, the pastor who led the Salem witch hunt in 1692.

As a quest by the townspeople of Salem, Mass. to rid their community of members they believed to be unfit and unholy additions, the 1692-93 Salem witch trials involved a series of hearings and ...

His Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Hunt of 1692 is the first book in Oxford University Press’s New Narratives in American History series, which its editors say will forgo the “detached, ...

Salem 1692 – The Origins of Witch Hunt Madness. Posted: February 21, 2025 | Last updated: March 8, 2025. In February 1692, strange illness struck two young girls in Salem, igniting the infamous ...

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

That’s the topic of a book, "In the Shadow of Salem: The Andover Witch Hunt of 1692," by author Richard Hite, who was at the North Andover Historical Society on Friday night for a discussion on ...

Satan & Salem: The Witch-Hunt Crisis of 1692 Benjamin C. Ray. Univ. of Virginia, $29.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-8139-3707-6 ...

The witch hunt begins All three women were brought before the local magistrates and interrogated for several days, starting on March 1, 1692. Osborne claimed innocence, as did Good.

The No. 2 biggest tourist trap in the world is the Salem Witch Museum in historic Salem, ... guests are transported to 1692 through 13 life-size stage sets depicting the Salem witch hunt.