the Massachusetts legislature has also worked to clear the names of those accused of demonic sorcery during the Salem Witch Trials, which were heard in colonial courts in the 1600s. Self ...

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.

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 ...

This seminar studies the representation of witches from the late 1400s to the mid-1600s, exploring the violent history of European witch hunts and the use of women’s bodies as a tool for political ...