After confessing to these practices of diabolical witchcraft before the Inquisition court, the inquisitors asked the defendants two final questions in which they were to formally acknowledge their ...

Once hunted and feared, the witch steps into the light at Pointe-à-Callière’s Witches: Out of the Shadows. Open until Apr. 6, 2025, the exhibition is a retrospect of the unknown history of witches, ...

News Editor Correspondent Piper Vance dive into NC State’s 1598 copy of “De La Démonomanie Des Sorciers” by Jean Bodin, a ...

Condemned in tens of thousands for witchcraft ... relevant in the 16th and 17th centuries with the founding of new tribunals in Spain and the creation of the Holy Office. The Inquisition tribunals ...

The Spanish Inquisition put a stop to the witchcraft trials that had spilled over from France in the early 17th century by assuming jurisdiction over witchcraft accusations. It's true that 80% of ...

Early modern people in Europe believed in witchcraft and the supernatural, and in times of duress, might blame supposed witches for unfavorable events.

In the 16th and 17th centuries, even something as simple as a mole could have had you accused of being a witch.

In the tumultuous 16th century, a Dominican friar ... which it specifically convicted both Bruno and the witches of blaspheming.” At least some of the countless men and women condemned by the ...

Historian Mikki Brock joins WIRED to answer the internet's bubbling cauldron of questions about witches, witchcraft, and witch hunting through the ages. Can men be witches or only women?

There followed two main periods of witch persecution in Scotland, the first of which was in the 1590's and the second in the 1640's. The late 16th-century craze was encouraged by the return journey of ...

They inadvertently become entwined in a plan to resurrect a deadly 16th century witch. Members Club blends the mundane with the ludicrous, featuring talking hedgehogs, whisky-drinking toads ...

The tlamatlquiticitl—midwife—offered those in her charge a remarkable 16th-century birthing plan, combining practical care, drugs for pain relief, and religious ceremonies. This story appears ...