On a midsummer day in 1438, a young man from the north shore of Lake Geneva presented himself to the local church inquisitor. He had a confession to make. Five years earlier, his father had forced him ...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctvv416z0 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctvv416z0.3 To understand witchcraft we must descend into the darkness of the ...

One of the earliest depictions of flying witches is in a 15th-century text entitled "Le champion des dames," or "The Defender of Ladies." Martin Le Franc/W. Schild. Die Maleficia der Hexenleut' via ...

On a midsummer day in 1438, a young man from the north shore of Lake Geneva presented himself to the local church inquisitor. He had a confession to make. Five years earlier, his father had forced him ...

A new campaign is working to restore the reputation of witches, a group that has been persecuted throughout history, with Scotland’s first minister calling medieval ...

The marks are meant to keep bad spirits away, but they won't stop a high-speed train route from moving into the area. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

T he Middle Ages and early modern period were not a good time for anyone, particularly women who deviated from a very limited set of expectations. Between superstition, religious hysteria, and social ...

The medieval phenomena of witch trials and witch hunts loom large in our collective imaginations. A “witch hunt” is a political term for what one perceives as baseless persecution; anti-communist ...

While working on a graduate school paper on the mystical powers of coral, gemologist Anna Rasche ventured deep into the archives of the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum’s library. Coral is the ...

Travel back in time with Witch, a new medieval horror from filmmakers Craig Hinde & Marc Zammit. As the title suggests, this is a film about witchcraft. But this isn’t just about human witches with a ...