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 ...

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

Agatha All Along has put Agatha Harkness in the spotlight alongside a coven of unlikely allies as they journey down the ...

Condemned in tens of thousands for witchcraft, for cursing crops, or for dancing with the devil. Starting from the late ...

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 ...

Meg was accused of using witchcraft to ruin crops, sour milk and shape-shift into animals during her life in the 17th Century ...

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

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”).

“This is a book about borders. It’s a book about physical borders, and it’s also a book about metaphysical borders,” ...

This is the second time Mattagami First Nation Chief Jennifer Constant hosted a Witches Walk. The route began at the Timmins ...