In her Newberry Library course, Kay Daly examines the depiction of witches onstage, from the 17th century to the present.

The mean, green witch and the Evil Queen have thrilled generations of moviegoers. But they also reflect cultural fears about ...

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 ...

Reproductive Rites’ unearths the untold story of abortion witch hunts, from the days of Socrates through the Salem Witch ...

The ballad, then, underscores the sensational, multimedia nature of the Logroño auto de fe, which laid bare a nightmarish ...

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 ...

Agatha All Along has named dropped Nicholas Scratch, and Salem's Seven have appeared several times. But what is their tangled ...

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

“This is a book about borders. It’s a book about physical borders, and it’s also a book about metaphysical borders,” ...

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

The episode stops just short of confirming that Teen, whose true identity has been hidden by a magical sigil that prevents ...