Towards the end of the 1600s, though, more people had did have access to lawyers who could cast doubt on testimony or point out the lack of evidence. The Great Witch Hunt of 1661-2 saw attitudes ...

The plotters were caught and were executed for high treason. Witchcraft was a criminal offence until 1735, and was punishable by death during the Tudor and Stuart periods. Witches were seen as the ...

For a modern audience, the witch trials that took place in the American colonies in the latter half of the 1600s seem to have hinged on the question of whether or not witches were real.

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 ...