As long as we live in a world where people are persecuted for perceived differences, memorialising accused witches will ...

The Islandmagee witch trials are believed to be Ireland's last and took place with a backdrop of the superstitions of ...

While both the anthropological link between witchcraft and gender, and the historical significance of witchcraft in the early modern period in Europe have been studied extensively, little research has ...

In the prologue to 1994’s Witchcraze: A New History of the European Witch Hunts, author Anne Llewellyn Barstow observes, “The longer I have worked on these sixteenth- and seventeenth-century events, ...

A woman beheaded after she was accused of causing a girl to spit pins and convulse was exonerated Wednesday, more than 200 years after she became the last person executed as a witch in Europe. The ...

Was there any scientific basis to potions, lotions and salves that folk healers prescribed, or was it all just hocus pocus?

Elokia, a traumatized girl who is a participant in the OLAME project for rejected “witch children,” sits with her arms crossed in Bukavu, Congo, May 3, 2018. Missio, one of Germany’s Pontifical ...

“The Possessed,” the third feature film from Bosnian-Dutch filmmaker Ena Sendijarević and her English-language debut, has been greenlit and is set to shoot in Spain at the start of 2026. The project, ...

The 'Malleus Maleficarum,' a medieval handbook, was used to try and execute supposed witches. Its influence lasted for centuries – including at the Salem Witch Trials. Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe ...