From casting spells to riding on broomsticks, witches have been part of folklore for centuries. While real-life witches are very different from their pop-culture stereotypes, the very idea of them ...

Around Halloween and spooky season, famous characters and specific imagery surfaces when witches are mentioned. From the Wicked Witch of the West to the Sanderson Sisters from "Hocus Pocus", women ...

Were some of Ireland’s most powerful and notorious women really witches? Or were they victims of their own success, falling foul of the jealous and fearful? Let’s take a look at three of the ...

Ms. Dyer, arguably, inspired one of the most famous fictional witches in American pop culture: the one at the center of the 1999 horror film “The Blair Witch Project.” Although the film never ...

The bold and bewitching musical is based on the novel by John Updike which also conjured up the hit film starring Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Cher and Susan Sarandon. The show is being staged ...

These days we do not live in fear of witchcraft or spend our time hunting witches. A painting illustrating the famous Robert Burns poem 'Tam o' Shanter'. In the poem, Tam barely escapes as he is ...

This woodcut shows witches casting a spell to cause rain. From De Lamiis et Phitonicis Mulieribus, written by Ulrich Molitor in 1489. (Charles Walker Collection/Alamy Stock Photo) There was also a ...