In 1573, a region of France declared war on werewolves. They seemed to be everywhere. But what were they? These weren't your ...

A new book How to Kill a Witch brings a dark period of history back to grisly life – and an official tartan is being released to memorialise some of those who were tortured and killed.

Statistics is just one way to tell the tale of the infamous Salem witch trials. In just 16 months between February 1692 and May 1693, up to 200 people—mostly women—were accused of practicing ...

Excavated in 2004 from a 17th-century privy under Rochester Independent College, the bottle had been forgotten until Crozier’s discovery. “Someone joked it might be a witch bottle,” she says.

T hroughout accounts of 17th-century witch trials in Europe and North America, physical features alone were considered undeniable proof of witchcraft. The belief was that the devil branded witches ...

THE WITCHING TIDE, by Margaret Meyer In a 1996 essay, “Why I Wrote ‘The Crucible,’” the playwright Arthur Miller describes how the 1692 witch trials in Salem, Mass., offered a way to ...

Would you have been one of the accused? Would you have qualified as a witch in the 17th century? Take this quiz and find out. While the Salem witch trials are the most prominent in history ...

Dr. Amanda Foreman analyses the seventeenth century persecution of women as witches. A contemporary context is provided alongside its’ continuity through the ages. The explosion of witch trials ...

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BREWING UP A GOOD STORY: 17th Century Colonial Dames Hear Program on Colonial Witchcraft by Kathy S. Mills. (Submitted Photo) THOMASVILLE- The John Lee of Nansemond Chapter, Colonial Dames ...

Throughout accounts of 17th-century witch trials in Europe and North America, physical features alone were considered undeniable proof of witchcraft. The belief was that the devil branded witches’ ...