This 1892 illustration from Harper’s Magazine shows a courtroom scene, with a crowd accusing two young girls. Like many during the Salem witch trials, the girls’ youth reflects the ...

Now while Fate, Wotan and Inza Cramer are present in More Fun Comics #56, Salem The Witch Girl is not. Her name also reflects DC character Klarion The Witch Boy. And she is also notable on one of ...

Arthur Miller’s play “The Crucible” also casts one of the Salem girls as the villain. His play depicts Abigail — who was, in real life, a girl of 11 — as a manipulative 16-year-old ...

The Salem witch trials started with two girls having unexplainable fits. In mid-January 1692, Elizabeth “Betty” Parris, the 9-year-old daughter of the local Reverend Samuel Parris, ...

It’s Halloween and ESSENCE is taking a look at the OG Black Girl Magic during the Salem witch trials. We’re going to kick off the holiday with a little fact vs. fiction.

The hysteria that was the foundation for the infamous persecution of witches in 1692 has contemporary echoes in how ‘witch hunts’ form today.

Three hundred twenty-five years later, there are still some unresolved questions about the Salem witch trials. The questions aren’t about whether the people killed in 1692 — 19 executed by ...

That's the spooky idea Linnda R. Caporael floated in her 1976 paper Ergotism: The Satan Loosed In Salem.In search of a concrete explanation for the witch-hunting mania, she stumbled upon a theory ...

The witch hunt began when four young girls played fortune telling games with Tituba, an enslaved woman from the West Indies owned by Salem’s minister, the Rev. Samuel Parris.

As long as the Salem witch trials continue to have a hold on the American imagination, Tituba will be there, as she was in the 1957 and 1996 film versions of The Crucible; in its revival on ...

Adriana Mather’s How to Hang a Witch had me at the description: Mean Girls meets the Salem Witch Trials. I kept imagining a group of teen witches in black velvet pointy witch hats saying “On ...