First time around, it was impossible to avoid. The Blair Witch phenomenon had everyone scared - from net surfers to cinema audiences to Hollywood executives who watched in horror as a bunch of ...
After all, witches are the perfect metaphor for women living in contemporary societies who want to erase their rights, their bodies and their freedoms. Given how these ‘wise women’ were ...
A new history of the seventeenth-century Basque witch-hunt usefully blows away some old myths, but fails to explain convincingly why it happened, argues Elaine Graham-Leigh In the early years of the ...
In 1584, an English gentleman named Reginald Scott wrote The Discovery of Witchcraft. The book sets out rational and religious reasons not to believe in witchcraft and exposes tricks and illusions ...
Then Fern meets a librarian who gives her an occult book about witchcraft, and power is in the hands of the girls for the first time in their lives. But power can destroy as easily as it creates ...