The Salem witch trials took place in a period of New England history when women were accused of being witches. These accusations were deadly in some cases. It wasn’t until 2022 that the last woman ...

Halloween lands on Thursday but the spooky, consumer-driven holiday has been possessing Salem for weeks. In October, an estimated half-million visitors descend on “Witch City” (the population is ...

Holidays that promote and celebrate the bending of cultural norms have a special allure, and few of them that cross national borders freely. It is no wonder then that Halloween has become increasingly ...

Throughout history, the depiction of the witch has taken on many forms, but the archetype has always been a woman in all black, either wearing a pointy hat and flying around on a broom, or the ...

It’s Oct. 15, 1674, in Torsåker, Sweden. Fear and panic are in the air as 65 women and six men make their way to the execution block. All accused of witchcraft, they will each be decapitated with an ...

Broomsticks, cauldrons and pointy hats often come to mind when someone says the word "witch." Around Halloween and spooky season, famous characters and specific imagery surfaces when witches are ...

Notwithstanding the pandemic, witches in pointy black hats appear in the windows of stores and homes across my city this Halloween. Witch costumes are popular with young girls who, in ordinary times, ...

Detail of brooms for witches in halloween, detail of decoration and superstition, magic and mystery(Getty Images/iStockphoto/Sergi Nunez) Look up “witches” and ...

This week Wicked: For Good hits theaters, promising to tell audiences the second half of the story of how a young, talented, green girl of Oz named Elphaba Thropp became the Wicked Witch of the West, ...

Last month, on the weekend of the summer solstice, I took my teenage kids to a place known as Proctor’s Ledge, which today sits in a modest residential neighborhood on the outskirts of Salem, ...

Something wicked this way comes. Wicked fun, that is. This year we’re celebrating Nerdoween with our first-ever “Nerdist Witch Week.” During the final days of October, we’re paying tribute to those ...