How one of humanity’s most important inventions fuelled deadly witch hunts in Europe - Early books and influence of nearby cities created perfect conditions for persecution of women, study says.

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 European witch hunts were most intense from approximately 1450 to 1750, a period marked by religious upheaval and social instability. Key factors contributing to these trials included: ...

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.

Between around 1530 and 1650 a witch-hunt frenzy gripped the European continent. In England, some 500 people – the vast majority of them women – were sentenced to death for the alleged crime ...

In contemporary English, says Wikipedia, “witch-hunt” metaphorically means an investigation usually conducted with much publicity, supposedly to uncover subversive activity, disloyalty and so on, but ...

President Trump’s defense of the former president of Brazil was the latest example of him invoking a term he has frequently used while describing himself as a victim.

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.. Researchers ...