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 ...

While witch hunts in Ireland were rare in comparison to other European countries, some Scottish settlers, arriving on these shores from the 1600s, brought with them their fears and prejudices and ...