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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers at the Santa Fe Institute found that the printing and dissemination of manuals on witch hunting, particularly the ...

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 sudden emergence of witch trials in early modern Europe may have been fueled by one of humanity's most significant intellectual milestones: the invention of the printing press in 1450.

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