In the prologue to 1994’s Witchcraze: A New History of the European Witch Hunts, author Anne Llewellyn Barstow observes, “The longer I have worked on these sixteenth- and seventeenth-century ...

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.

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This explosion of trials, popularly known as the “witch craze,” has puzzled historians for years. The belief in witchcraft had existed since medieval times, but never before had there been such a ...

About 400 years ago, the European witch hunts were at their peak. Between the 15th and 18th centuries, an estimated 50,000 people, mostly women, were executed for witchcraft across Europe.

Ena Sendijarevic’s ‘The Possessed,’ a Dark, Surrealist Exploration of a Love Triangle Set During the European Witch Hunts, Greenlit (EXCLUSIVE) Director to shoot English-language debut in ...