From ancient Greece through Puritan New England, witches functioned as easy targets for cultural anxieties about gender, ...

Its chronological scope extends from the Ancient Near East to twenty-first-century North America ... across a broad historical and geographical sweep.' Carole M. Cusack, Church History 'There can be ...

Witches' memorial planned to mark persecution Why Canada still charges women with witchcraft Court records ... Dr Ceri Houlbrook, lecturer in folklore and history at the University of ...

5. A German bestseller changed the way people felt about witchcraft In 1486, a German clergyman called Heinrich Kramer wrote a book entitled Maleus Mallificarum. The author derided witchcraft ...

These days we do not live in fear of witchcraft or spend our time hunting ... The origins of Halloween date way back in time to an ancient Celtic festival called Samhain. Samhain marked the ...

More than 200 items are on show in the museum, including crystal balls A witchcraft exhibition at a North York Moors museum will examine how fear led to "magical ways of thinking". The Believe It ...

Records suggest that more than half of those accused of witchcraft in Scotland between 1563-1736 were over 40 years old. At this time, the average life expectancy was around 32 years of age .