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

Here's a breakdown on the history of witchcraft and an answer to the age-old question, "Are witches real?" Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. Witchcraft ...

Modern witches claim to be speaking for an entire class of oppressed people who have existed throughout history: ‘For decades, witches have been moving slowly out of the shadows and spreading ...

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

A guide to Hong Kong’s most haunted places And the building that houses the museum has a history of its own: it was built in the late 16th century by a witch hunter who played a key role in ...

The method of execution differed in different countries. For example, people in England were hanged for the crime of witchcraft but in Scotland, witchcraft was classed as heresy — a religious ...

Witchcraft close witchcraftIn a historical context, this was thought to be a kind of magic that could be used to cause harm to people or property. Witches were often accused of obtaining their ...

(Photo by TIZIANA FABI / AFP) Italy celebrates Befana on January 6th, a holiday that rivals Christmas for many Italians. But how did this staunchly Catholic nation come to worship a pagan witch? On ...

This seminar studies the representation of witches from the late 1400s to the mid-1600s, exploring the violent history of European witch hunts and the use of women’s bodies as a tool for political ...