The Salem witch trials occurred in colonial Massachusetts between early 1692 and mid-1693. More than 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft—the devil’s magic—and 20 were executed. In 1711, ...

Director Robert Eggers’ sharply unsettling horror feature The Witch unfolds in the wilds of 17th-century New England, a time and locale that evoke colonial hardship, Puritan severity, and occult ...

FILE — Beth Caruso, author and co-founder of the CT Witch Trial Exoneration Project, which was created to clear the names of the accused, stands on the Palisado Green in Windsor, Conn., Jan. 24, 2023.

Dressed in black from neck to toe and crowned with a shock of white hair, Carson O. Hudson Jr., stood in the nave of Historic St. Luke’s Church in Smithfield on Aug. 18 ready to share what he knew ...

HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — With distant family members looking on, Connecticut senators voted Thursday to absolve the 12 women and men convicted of witchcraft — 11 of whom were executed — more than 370 ...