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

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

The sudden emergence of witch trials in early modern Europe may have been fueled by one of humanity's most significant ...

In her Newberry Library course, Kay Daly examines the depiction of witches onstage, from the 17th century to the present.

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 ...

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

On the eve of the Jubilee, a national initiative from the Netherlands, one of the European regions most affected by the witch hunt phenomenon between the 15th and 17th centuries, has brought the ...

In the short indie horror Daemonologie, you play a witch finder of the 1600s, sent to a small Scottish village to discover ...

the practice of witchcraft is called a word that means 'shining.' 'Inversion,' where witches do things in the opposite way to what is appropriate or normal, is also a common feature. European ...

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 ...