This witchcraft trial left a lasting impression on Praetorius and may have changed his thinking.

By 1918, it was considered the last witchcraft trial held in the United States.

Recklinghausen was also the site of more than 100 witchcraft trials (1514-1710).

He strenuously opposed the witchcraft trials, and served as acting president of Harvard from 1701.

He later wrote at length of his experience with witchcraft trials.

Salem, site of the witchcraft trials in 1692, now celebrates its link with an infamous past.

Salem is probably most closely linked in the public imagination with the 1692 witchcraft trials, but it contains much more of interest.

Before 1750 it was legally sanctioned and involving official witchcraft trials.

Chandler would not have believed his life would be at stake in a witchcraft trial.

Nearly 2,000 witchcraft trials survive in the Scottish archives, the vast majority from the period 1620-80.