Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Historian Mikki Brock joins WIRED to answer the internet's bubbling cauldron of questions about witches, witchcraft, and witch ...

According to the Smithsonian, the Newberry Library in Chicago is crowdsourcing translations for three 1 century manuscripts dealing with charms, spirits and other manners of magical practice.

La Voisin helped women get abortions, which were illegal in 17th-century France, where the Catholic Church had significant ...

THOMASVILLE- The John Lee of Nansemond Chapter, Colonial Dames Seventeenth Century met at The Plaza Restaurant for its January meeting. During the meeting, new officers were elected and delegates to ...

A team of dedicated researchers at the University of Manchester spent two weeks photographing a recovered notebook documenting a 1645 trial for witchcraft, so that the world may know of the evil witch ...

A council has called for a general pardon of people executed after historical witch trials, including seven women who were hanged in Kent in 1652. Five women from Cranbrook and one woman from Lenham ...

What do a tumultuous campus breakup and a 17th-century witch trial have in common? More than you might think. Published by Central Michigan University Press, Making History and Witch Hunt 1649 are two ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! During the years 1692-1693, people in the Massachusetts Bay Colony were accused of witchcraft. Subsequently, hearings and trials were conducted; some ...

Witch hunting has claimed many lives in history and unfortunately persists today in some areas. One of the well-known ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a 17th century 'witches' cottage' during a construction project in Pendle Hill. The building was discovered underneath a grass mound in the village of Barley in ...