The Salem Witch Trials get all the publicity, but it was far from the on...  ...t all the publicity, but it was far from the only witch panic that invaded colonial America. In Hartford,...  ...vaded colonial America. In Hartford, Connecticut, witch hysteria gripped the community...

King Louis XIV was upset that so many members of t...  ...it they were rotting. Were they poisoned? Was it witchcraft ? At the time, there was only a short leap from al...  ...time, there was only a short leap from alchemy to witchcraft to crime. The king established a special tribunal...  ...nown, is a misleadi...

Americans are very familiar with the Salem witch trials , but such witch hunts were going on in many places during that ti...  ...fessed, under torture, which reinforced belief in witches . An astonishing number of people died because of...  ...ame sick of the carnage. Englan...