“Your average witch is just somebody who lives next to you and has this spiritual practice you don’t know about,” Deborah ...

How one of humanity’s most important inventions fuelled deadly witch hunts in Europe - Early books and influence of nearby ...

They were also common among the community’s most powerless members, such as poor women and women of color—people who were easy to accuse as witches. (Witch panics killed thousands throughout history.) ...

Grim. Anna was decapitated in Switzerland in 1782. She was the last person in Europe to be executed for the crime of witchcraft. Like many other confessions of witchcraft, hers was extracted by ...

I teach a course on New England witchcraft trials, and students always arrive with varying degrees of knowledge of what ...

This myth was promoted by the Egyptologist Margaret Murray in the early 20th century and was then debunked by the historian C. L'Estrange Ewen almost as soon as it appeared. It was founded on a ...

The 15 th through 17 th centuries saw a wave of “witch hunts” break out across the Western world: the Salem Witch Trials in ...

In the 21st century, you’re far more likely to encounter a TV witch who’s smart and stylish, and whose beauty is part of her ...

The sudden emergence of witch trials in early modern Europe may have been fueled by one of humanity's most significant intellectual milestones: the invention of the printing press in 1450.

Each week we pause to ponder the truths available to us from the pages of history. We browse through the annals of the ...

The history of Halloween goes back at least 2,000 years, to the Celtic pagan festival of Samhain (pronounced “sow-un”).

The advent of the printing press fuelled the spread of misinformation and the emergence of witch trials across Europe in the second half of the 15th century, according to a new study. The witch ...