AMC is further extending the lives of Mayfair Witches. The cable network and its sibling streamer AMC+ have picked up a third ...

The series, part of AMC's Immortal Universe of series inspired by the works of Anne Rice, is also gaining a new co-showrunner ...

Denny, it turns out, has not one but two ancestors directly involved in the witch hunts of 17th-century America—Samuel Sewall, the judge, and Mary Bliss Parsons, a woman who was accused and ...

It’s relevant today.” Image An illustration of Moll Dyer, a woman living alone in Maryland during the 17th century who had been deemed a witch.Credit...Maria Breidenbach Holmes/Town of ...

Figure caption, A witchcraft trial in England in the 17th century. A woman accused of witchcraft is being lowered into the water to find out whether she survives. If she did, she would be found ...

The plotters were caught and were executed for high treason. Witchcraft was a criminal offence until 1735, and was punishable by death during the Tudor and Stuart periods. Witches were seen as the ...

Then a mysterious man arrives and begins his search for the witch – the origin of the curse – accusing the village’s women of being evil. Chronicling life in a 17th century puritanical ...

From the Reformation and 17th century witch-hunting, through the American Revolution and to the nightmare visions of Orwell’s 1984, Ferguson explores the intersection of social media ...

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In 16th and 17th century Scotland, roughly 4,000 people were accused of witchcraft. The rate of executions were five times the European average, and of the accused, 85% were women. The BBC's ...