New research shows that the printing press, invented by Johannes Gutenberg, helped spread conspiracies that fueled the Salem ...

That text was spread throughout the Western world thanks to the newly invented printing press.

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.

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

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 ...

A new study reveals that the invention of the printing press in 1440 fueled the world's deadliest witch hunt, leading to ...

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 ...

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

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 at ...