Witch hunting has killed many people throughout history, and unfortunately continues to do so to this day in some parts of ...

If amateur investigation into my lineage is to be believed, Rebecca Nurse is my ninth great-grandmother, Lynne Weiler writes.

This episode moves from what is possibly Bedfordshire's earliest record of witchcraft, to the witch trials of the 17th ...

In this episode Nat completes her exploration of witchcraft in Bedfordshire starting with a 19th Century ghost sighting of a ...

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 ...

Witches are having a moment. Beyond the hit musical Wicked, there TikTok Hashtags and millions of posts celebrating witches ...

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 ...

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 ...

K. Blakemore is a poet and novelist. Her first novel, ‘The Manningtree Witches’, won the Desmond Elliott Prize for Best First Novel and was shortlisted for the Costa and RSL Ondaatje Prizes. Set in ...