Witches and witch trials remain a source of enduring curiosity. Julie Stone Peters, H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of English ...

One of the most famous and cruelest of the witch trials was the “Swimming test” or as it was often called in Europe, the ...

How much do you know about the strange goings on in Zagreb? Let's flick back through the pages of a dark history ...

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

The Salem Witch Trials prove how fear can spiral out of control. It started with a few strange accusations, but soon, ...

The Pendle Trials saw 10 women and men executed after being found guilty of black magic. Yet 400 years later, despite the ...

The town is now best known as a seaside town that's perfect for a family getaway - but this wasn't always the case, and the ...

A Michigan Republican activist says the newly expanded House Oversight Committee should wreck the future political plans of ...

An early preview of the locally filmed upcoming documentary feature film “The Last Witch” will be hosted at Turner’s Seafood at Lyceum Hall this Thursday, Feb. 6, at ...

Roger Ebert didn't usually attack harmless movies, but there was one that he simply couldn't abide, and it's gone on to be an ...