Around 50 years before the infamous Salem witch trials, fear of witches first plagued the colonial people of western Massachusetts. In the enterprising settlement of Springfield, founder and fur ...
17 th century New England saw its fair share of witch hysteria, with neighbors accusing neighbors of heresy. Some of the most infamous trials played out in Salem, Massachusetts, but as a new ...
NORTH ANDOVER — As tens of thousands of revelers descend on Salem, every Halloween because of the witch trials of 1692 and 1693, towns in the Merrimack Valley have stories seldom heard, including ...