In 1692, the good people of Salem, Mass., went searching for evil. They could have just looked in the mirror. Witches and devils dancing in a circle, woodcut, 1720. (Wellcome Collection) Driven by … ...

Inspired by events in East Anglia, England, in 1645, “The Witching Tide,” by Margaret Meyer, evokes the climate of fear and accusation that grips a town with the arrival of a “witchfinder.” ...

A woodcut from around 1600 shows a group of male and female witches meeting and drinking with devils. ... Around the same time as the witch trials, Europe experienced a period of climate change.

In “The Witch of New York,” Alex Hortis revisits a Staten Island case that helped usher in a lurid new era of journalism. By Kate Tuttle Kate Tuttle writes about books for The Boston Globe ...

Witch trials were not unique to Salem. Europe had undergone a witch-hunting craze from the 15th to the 18th centuries, prosecuting an estimated 100,000 people—mostly women—for accusations of ...