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

The Crucible” is a dramatization of the Salem Witch Trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692-1693. American playwright Arthur Miller penned the play as an allegory for ...

In Part 3, explore how the Little Ice Age’s harsh climate and societal struggles fueled fear and superstition, leading to ...

Mayfair Witches Season 2 Episode 6 shifts the action to Scotland and Amsterdam as Rowan searches for Lasher. Check out ...

A new history of the seventeenth-century Basque witch-hunt usefully blows away some old myths, but fails to explain convincingly why it happened, argues Elaine Graham-Leigh In the early years of the ...

In the hit movie “Wicked,” those famous magical shoes are silver. But if you want to see them in all their ruby-red glory ...

At the beginning of January the president sat impatient on a Zoom call from his garish, gilded estate in Florida, slumped and ...

Mayfair Witches is a supernatural horror drama series adapted from Anne Rice's novel trilogy, Lives of the Mayfair Witches. The first episode of the second season premiered on January 5, 2025, and ...

Rowan Fielding’s extraordinary abilities make her the most powerful witch in the Mayfair family’s history as per the Mayfair Witches series. Being the 13th witch in the Mayfair line ...

(It’s 1970, remember?) For the first time, Fern begins to feel that control might be within her grasp after all, but at what ...

All parts of the exam may be taken either in English or a Scandinavian language. In this course we will study aspects of the cultural history of magic, focusing on the period of the witch hunts in ...