Early modern people in Europe believed in witchcraft and the supernatural ... things get stickier. History is brimming with a dizzying number of potential sources. Stephens has said that they ...

There's a myth circulating that early women beer brewers, with their metal brewing cauldrons and cats kept as pest control ...

Poor Alison was imprisoned on charge of witchcraft, sealed in St. Andrew ... arrow at a man's foot to cure his illness. (Science History Images / Alamy Stock Photo) In the past, people had ...

Of course, few contemporary practices carry the centuries-old, misogyny-laden history of witchcraft. According to English Heritage, somewhere between 30,000 and 60,000 people were executed during ...

Between the 15th and 18th centuries, an estimated 50,000 people, mostly women, were executed for witchcraft across Europe ... Preferences From RTÉ Radio 1's History Show, Alan Titley talks ...

More than 200 items are on show in the museum, including crystal balls A witchcraft exhibition at a North York Moors museum will examine how fear led to "magical ways of thinking". The Believe It ...

News Editor Correspondent Piper Vance dive into NC State’s 1598 copy of “De La Démonomanie Des Sorciers” by Jean Bodin, a ...

Many witches throughout the long history of "Star Wars" have tapped into aspects of the Force that Jedi and Sith haven't, which led to abilities like telepathy, invisibility, raising the undead ...

We will also look at witchcraft in relation to female sexuality and fears about women’s access to ritual power throughout history. Dr Jennifer Farrell is a lecturer in medieval history at the ...

This is based in part on a flawed reimagining of history in which pre-Christian, ancient societies were matriarchal and utopian. In appealing to younger teens, especially females, Wicca promises a ...

Sometimes answers never come. But witchcraft, to Green, isn’t about finding answers to life’s big questions (or death’s, for that matter). It’s about finding beauty within the chaos.

Halloween probably has its roots in the pre-Christian Celtic festival of Samhain, celebrating the end of harvests and the beginning of those ...