Between 1645 and 1647, approximately 250 accusations of witchcraft came before the authorities in East Anglia. This was the largest number of accusations that England had experienced in one place ...

Henry VIII: Wary of witches According to the 2011 UK Census, there are over 53,000 people who identify as Pagan in England. The practice of witchcraft is by no means dead and buried. According to ...

Maryland is the most recent state to introduce legislation to exonerate those convicted of witchcraft centuries ago. But why ...

Alice Molland – who has long held the tragic record of being the last woman in England to be hanged as a “witch” – was ...

A bill introduced in the state House by Maryland lawmakers could exonerate individuals accused or convicted of witchcraft ...

From the Pendle Witches to Samlesbury Hall, here are some of the areas in Lancashire that locals associate with witchcraft.

In her book A Fever in Salem: A New Interpretation of the New England Witch Trials, Laurie Winn Carlson draws on these events at length in the first few chapters; they make fascinating reading.

While renovating a building in Cleethorpes, a seaside town on the east coast of England, workers found ... the object has been identified as a “witch bottle,” a rare vestige of 18th-century ...

The new Witches of Scotland tartan is a memorial for the people - primarily women - falsely persecuted under Scotland's Witchcraft Act which was in place between 1563 and 1736. The decree ...

Cinematic recreations and expert interviews reveal the truth behind six terrifying true stories of witch trials in Germany, Scotland, England, America, Sweden and Ireland.

A witchcraft-obsessed, paranoid James I had become king of England and helping to hunt down witches became a way to secure his favour. The "awfulness" of the women's persecution is "well conveyed ...