These days we do not live in fear of witchcraft or spend our time hunting witches. A painting illustrating the famous Robert Burns poem 'Tam o' Shanter'. In the poem, Tam barely escapes as he is ...
Essay of the Day: The common view of witches today—that, throughout time, they have been oppressed for their opposition to patriarchy—is “utter rubbish,” Diane Purkiss argues in Athenaeum ...