In retellings of historical witch hunts, it's often claimed that the people convicted of witchcraft – mostly women – were burned at the stake. But social media users claim accused witches in colonial ...
During the 17th-century Finnmark witch trials, 91 people were executed in Norway's northernmost region, mainly by burning at the stake ...
In the late 1600s, hundreds of people were accused of practicing witchcraft in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Twenty of those accused witches were executed during what is now known as the Salem witch ...