Good Omens captured fans' imagination with its depiction of the cosmic order, but its interpretation of witches comes from a bloody event in English history.

T. H. Matteson, "Examination of a Witch" (1853), oil on canvas, 38 1/2 x 53 9/10 inches (97.8 x 137 cm) (image via Wikimedia Commons) In art history, the Salem witch trials often take the form of the ...

WINDSOR, Conn. (WFSB) - Long before Salem became synonymous with America’s witch trial hysteria, the first known execution for witchcraft in the American colonies took place in Connecticut. The year ...

A knock comes at your door in the middle of the night. Your neighbors are gathered outside. Someone points a finger and makes an accusation that will change your life forever. You’re a witch. Now you ...

I teach a course on New England witchcraft trials, and students always arrive with varying degrees of knowledge of what happened in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692. Nineteen people accused of witchcraft ...

I teach a course on New England witchcraft trials, and students always arrive with varying degrees of knowledge of what happened in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692. Nineteen people accused of witchcraft ...

Haylee Gilmore is a writer, artist, and avid book reader based in Pittsburgh, PA. She is a Point Park University graduate in the English Creative Writing Program. Her dream goal is to become a fiction ...