You probably remember backyard games, doodling symbols in the dirt, or trying to “read” someone’s future by staring at their ...

Detail of brooms for witches in halloween, detail of decoration and superstition, magic and mystery(Getty Images/iStockphoto/Sergi Nunez) Look up “witches” and ...

During the 17th-century Finnmark witch trials, 91 people were executed in Norway's northernmost region, mainly by burning at the stake ...

It was a mystery that left Augusta Stone Presbyterian Church Pastor John Craig perplexed. The fall of 1745 was especially difficult for the young Augusta County pastor and his wife, Isabella. Just ...

The persecution began in the 1500s and lasted almost two centuries. Nearly 4,000 people were accused of witchcraft, a vast majority of them women. They were arrested, brutally tortured and coerced ...

If you thought that accusations of witchcraft were a quaint moral panic surely left behind in the Salem witch trial era — well, think again. Some American pastors are still accusing their own ...

While the hysteria in Salem, Mass., regarding witches was full-blown, New York became a sanctuary for accused witches to flee to from other states if they could. What helped New York avoid the witch ...

Look up “witches” and you might see any of a number of depictions: ugly old ladies and young, sensual temptresses; antiheroes and aspiring role models; evil creatures mixing deadly potions and ...