When Billy enters his bedroom, he starts noticing his personal items also have connections to the Witches’ Road. For example, he has a poster for an album made by Alice’s mother, titled “The ...

Witch trials weren’t unheard of by the late 1600s—but this bizarre Massachusetts chapter took the paranoia to an all-new ...

Other accused witches included Agnes Sampson, a respected elderly woman in North Berwick and Dr John Fian, a local ...

A new history of the seventeenth-century Basque witch-hunt usefully blows away some old myths, but fails to explain ...

This woodcut shows witches casting a spell to cause rain. From De Lamiis et Phitonicis Mulieribus, written by Ulrich Molitor in 1489. (Charles Walker Collection/Alamy Stock Photo) There was also a ...

The North East Regional Minister-designate, Ibrahim Tia, has shed light on the intriguing history of the Gambaga Witches Camp, revealing how it transitioned from a site of executions to a refuge for ...

The Shocking History and Legacy of the Salem Witch Trials What fueled the frenzy that sent so many to their deaths in colonial America? And how did Americans reckon with the aftermath of the panic ...

Maryland witchcraft legislation addressing injustices of centuries ago seems timely given the peculiar beliefs of the modern ...

Tia Ibrahim, the minister-designate for Ghana’s North East Region, on Monday, January 27, 2025, shared a fascinating perspective on the Gambaga Witches Camp—a sanctuary for individuals accused of ...

But one legislative effort takes a look back in Maryland’s history. Whether they were accused, tried or convicted of the crime of witchcraft, a Maryland lawmaker wants individuals who were ...