The witch hunts started in the late 15th century in Central Europe and lasted more than 300 years with estimates suggesting nearly 45,000 women were executed.

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.

The witch trials in Europe and America were fundamentally shaped by particular biblical interpretations that viewed witchcraft as a severe spiritual threat warranting extreme measures.

President Trump’s defense of the former president of Brazil was the latest example of him invoking a term he has frequently ...

In the prologue to 1994’s Witchcraze: A New History of the European Witch Hunts, author Anne Llewellyn Barstow observes, “The longer I have worked on these sixteenth- and seventeenth-century ...

A recent historical study, published in the journal Theory and Society, seeks to explain one of the darkest and most enigmatic episodes of early modern Europe: the great witch hunt. Researchers have ...

The witch hunts in Central Europe took off in the late 15th century and lasted for almost 300 years, resulting in the prosecution of roughly 90,000 people, with nearly 45,000 executions.

"The Witch Hunt against Marine Le Pen is another example of European Leftists using Lawfare to silence Free Speech, and censor their Political Opponent, this time going so far as to put that ...

The witch hunt thus remains a late medieval phenomenon to be connected with the formation of modern Europe and its constitutive elements, the Protestant Reformation, and the Catholic Counter ...

There’s a through line between the president’s pardons and his intervention in the Jair Bolsonaro, Marine Le Pen and Benjamin Netanyahu cases.

Instead, as one State Department official put it, Beattie seemed to be on more of a “witch hunt,” to see who at State talks to people outside of State, and to determine exactly what they’re ...