“To be honest, the one thought that really went through my mind sitting in the court room was witch trials … trying to make her advocacy fit into some kind of vilification,” Ms Bastiaan said.

“To be honest, the one thought that really went through my mind sitting in the court room was witch trials … trying to make her advocacy fit into some kind of advocacy,” Ms Bastiaan said.

The pivotal accuser at the trials, Tituba, would go down in history ... the Massachusetts Bay Colony grappled with our deadliest witchcraft epidemic. Early in 1692, several young girls began ...

Tendring Council has unveiled the experience in Manningtree, St Osyth, Harwich and Walton, bringing to life the stories of communities affected by the Essex witch trials. Visitors can use their ...

As his trial on federal sex crime charges looms, Sean "Diddy" Combs is requesting a postponement of the legal proceeding. In a motion filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern ...

In 1692, the colonial town of Salem, Massachusetts, became caught up in a fervor over alleged witchcraft. In her new book “The Witches,” Stacy Schiff explores what led a group of Puritans to ...

She said she feared "the trial is just like the New England witch-hunt. They've made up their minds that I am a witch and they want to burn me."' In fact, none of the individuals convicted in 1692 ...

The incident he was convicted for in March happened during two back-to-back trials in December 2022. During those trials, at which Price was ultimately convicted for throwing bricks at passing ...

Witchcraft trials became a nexus between law, theology and the culture of common people. In this course, students will study the cultural and social basis of this development and get to know a ...