Three monumental academic titles, whose authority is grounded on expert scholarship but whose style is for the general reader ...

The advent of the printing press fuelled the spread of misinformation and the emergence of witch trials across Europe in the second half of the 15th century, according to a new study. Researchers ...

That’s not actually how Acting Undersecretary of State Darren Beattie communicated his request for information to a small office at the State Department, but he may as well have. Beattie is one of ...

Elokia, a traumatized girl who is a participant in the OLAME project for rejected “witch children,” sits with her arms crossed in Bukavu, Congo, May 3, 2018. Missio, one of Germany’s ...

Witch hunts can erupt suddenly, as during the COVID-19 pandemic, when terrified people searched for scapegoats. But when rates of these assaults have stayed high over decades—such as in Europe ...

Across many European cultures ... is one of several useful digitized resources for researching Scotland’s witch hunts. The University of Edinburgh’s Survey of Scottish Witchcraft website ...

The witch trials that swept Europe from the late 15th through the 17th centuries, culminating notably in America’s Salem Witch Trials of 1692, were driven substantially by specific biblical ...

"The Possessed," which has secured majority production funding, is a dark, surrealist exploration of a love triangle between two women fleeing the European witch hunts and the man who becomes ...

“The Possessed” is a dark, surrealist exploration of a love triangle between two women fleeing the European witch hunts and the man who becomes their captive. Sendijarević tells ...