Garbed in a dishwater-colored frock and glaring at us from under caterpillar brows is a life-sized figure of Rebecca Nurse, the eldest woman to be put to death during the Salem Witch Trials.

The Peabody Essex Museum's "Salem Witch Trials: Restoring Justice" showcases real objects and letters tied to the people involved.

An exhibition view of “The Salem Witch Trials: Reckoning and Reclaiming,” at New-York Historical Society, including a window that once stood in the home of Rebecca Nurse, who was hanged for ...

Genealogy testing showed Dutil is directly related to Rebecca Nurse, born Rebecca Towne, one of the most well-known cases in the Salem Witch Trials in 1692.

Deirdre O’Connell shines as a modern-day descendant of an accused witch in Sarah Ruhl’s unfocused new play at Lincoln Center Theater.

Rebecca Nurse was hanged in 1693 after being wrongfully accused of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials.

Genealogy testing showed Dutil is directly related to Rebecca Nurse, born Rebecca Towne, one of the most well-known cases in the Salem Witch Trials in 1692.

‘Becky Nurse of Salem’ Review: Witch Trials, Trump and the Kitchen Sink in Sarah Ruhl’s Overstuffed New Play Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, Lincoln Center; 287 seats; $92 top.

The ceremony came 325 years to the day when Sarah Good, Elizabeth Howe, Susannah Martin, Rebecca Nurse and Sarah Wildes were hanged at a site in Salem known as Proctor’s Ledge.

The first Chicago production by Shattered Globe Theatre stars Linda Reiter as the descendent of a woman executed during the Salem witch trials.