For a modern audience, the witch trials that took place in the American colonies in the latter half of the 1600s seem to have hinged on the question of whether or not witches were real.

The names of people accused of witchcraft more than 350 years ago in colonial Connecticut may be cleared at last following a long-running campaign by their descendants and lawmakers. The state’s ...

Towards the end of the 1600s, though, more people had did have access to lawyers who could cast doubt on testimony or point out the lack of evidence. The Great Witch Hunt of 1661-2 saw attitudes ...

“Witchcraft was illegal in the British colonies ... which filled the colony’s courts throughout much of the 1600s. The Maryland resolution has garnered support from various online groups ...