While the women accused in the infamous Salem witch trials in colonial America have long since been pardoned, the convictions of hundreds of British women executed under similar laws officially still ...

Coven ends in style, with a blaze of rousing determination, and it certainly feels like a story that needs telling right now.

Seventy-eight percent of the people executed for witchcraft in New England in the late 17th and early 18th centuries were women. Jef Thompson/Shutterstock.com When powerful men cry witch, they’re ...

Up to 60,000 so-called “witches” are thought to have been executed across Europe during the 1600s and 1700s, with tens of thousands more put on trial. But new research suggests that one English woman ...

Links between the infamous Suffolk witch trials in the 17th Century and those in Salem, in the US, are being explored in a new partnership between the two countries. The trial of ...

While Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed to be a victim of political witch hunts, all concrete evidence to the contrary, his entire campaign against “the enemy within,” or “the deep state,” has been ...

The lecture discussed the intersection of King James’ persecution of women believed to be witches and theater productions of the same era depicting witchcraft. Targoff began her lecture by explaining ...

T he Salem Witch Trials were more than a tragic chapter in colonial history; they were a mirror reflecting the darker ...

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