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.

Marshall, a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell who has written about historic witch trials. Instead, witchcraft accusations usually plagued women whose behavior irked ...

Discover the fascinating and tragic story of Tituba, the enslaved woman at the center of the Salem Witch Trials hysteria.

But 331 years later, religious witch hunts remain a common — if not well-publicized — occurrence in countries around the world. Women are the predominant targets, as they were in historical ...

From the Wicked Witch of the West to the Sanderson Sisters ... According to Conti, historical interpretations of witchcraft depend on certain scholars. For instance, some believe all witchcraft ...

That's absolutely the stereotype of a historical witch." Gibson also spoke about the differences between modern day witch hunts and those historically, and said, "Modern day witch hunts can be ...

14, I attended an evening event at Agecroft Hall in Richmond called “The Case Against Martha Wheeler: A Witch Trial Based on 17th Century Texts.” It was part play and part historical re ...

The 300-year-old book of witch trials held in Bury St Edmunds will go on display later this month A 300-year-old rare book that details events said to have inspired the infamous Salem Witch Trials ...

It takes place on a site involving the centuries-old Bell family haunting. Historic Bell Witch Cave Co-Owner and Director of Operations Candy Hooten, along with her co-owner brother and sister ...

"The Salem Witch Trials: Reckoning and Reclaiming" is on view at the New-York Historical Society. Thomas Satterwhite Noble, Witch Hill (The Salem Martyr), 1869. Collection of the New-York ...