Other accused witches included Agnes Sampson, a respected elderly woman in North Berwick and Dr John Fian, a local ...

How much do you know about the strange goings on in Zagreb? Let's flick back through the pages of a dark history ...

The town is now best known as a seaside town that's perfect for a family getaway - but this wasn't always the case, and the ...

The witch hunts in Central Europe took off in the late 15th century and lasted for almost 300 years, resulting in the prosecution of roughly 90,000 people, with nearly 45,000 executions.

(Burchard of Worms, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons) One change that led to witch trials across Europe was a change in how the Catholic Church viewed witchcraft. In the 10th century ...

In 16th and 17th century Scotland, roughly 4,000 people were accused of witchcraft. The rate of executions were five times the European average, and of the accused, 85% were women. The BBC's ...

leading to the notable Salem Witch Trials, which resulted in the deaths of 25 people. Massachusetts first began issuing pardons to Salem “witches” in 1703 and continued to do so until July ...

On this day in 1690, "Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick" attracted colonial officials' ire by repeating a scandalous rumor and condemning a British alliance with the Mohawk Meilan ...

This seminar studies the representation of witches from the late 1400s to the mid-1600s, exploring the violent history of European witch hunts and the use of women’s bodies as a tool for political ...

doubts about witch hunts grew and the number of trials across Europe fell. This may be because profound changes were taking place in European society. In 1584, an English gentleman named Reginald ...