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. Titled ...

The targets of the infamous 17th-century ‘witchfinder general’ narrate a powerful play based on AK Blakemore’s novel ...

Links between the infamous Suffolk witch trials in the 17th Century and those in Salem, in the US, are being explored in a new partnership between the two countries. The trial of Amy Denny and Rose ...

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 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 ...

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 ...