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 ...

Each week we pause to ponder the truths available to us from the pages of history. We browse through the annals of the ...

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 ...

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

“Your average witch is just somebody who lives next to you and has this spiritual practice you don’t know about,” Deborah ...

The history of Halloween goes back at least 2,000 years, to the Celtic pagan festival of Samhain (pronounced “sow-un”).

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

It’s one of the oldest documented parts of our state’s history, and also one of the darkest. The Connecticut Witch Trials ...