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 ...

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

John the Painter, AKA John Aitken, was an 18th century radical aiming to aid the American revolutionaries. He started a fire ...

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 ...

England’s deadliest witch trial happened in the North East in 1650 when the Newcastle Corporation brought in an infamous ...

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

The town of Danvers and the Danvers Alarm List Company announced a partnership this week to preserve the 26-acre Rebecca ...

Though the research focuses on historical witch trials, Doten-Snitker sees clear modern parallels on how large-scale social change occurs. "The process of adopting witch trials is not unlike how ...

A descendant of a victim of the Salem witch trials confronts contemporary traumas in Sarah Ruhl's Becky Nurse of Salem at Shattered Globe.

Somehow, Fortnite has added Mephisto to its universe before the MCU has, despite a recent name-drop in Agatha All Along.