The infamous witch trials may have put this Boston suburb on the map, but they’ve also overshadowed much of its magic. Here’s ...

In most other parts of Europe, though, women were predominantly the victims of witch hunts. One source estimates that about 80% of people executed for witchcraft were women. In Salem, 4 out of the ...

Witch hunts can erupt suddenly, as during the COVID-19 pandemic, when terrified people searched for scapegoats. But when rates of these assaults have stayed high over decades—such as in Europe ...

Witch hunts remain a "global problem in the 21st century," Deutsche Welle said, and it is such a pervasive issue that Aug. 10 has even been designated "World Day Against Witch Hunts." Thousands of ...

Witch hunts remain a "global problem in the 21st century," Deutsche Welle said, and is such a pervasive issue that Aug. 10 has even been designated "World Day Against Witch Hunts." "Thousands of ...

Fear and paranoia of the misogynistic society during the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries drove those witch hunts, which ultimately led to a woman-versus-woman fight for freedom. “ Malleus Maleficarum” ...

When witch hunts stalked northern Canada in the not-too-distant past. Although purged from mainstream history, Canada had its own deadly witch hunts as destructive as anything that happened in Salem.

Back in the UK it was Henry VIII who first defined witchcraft as a crime punishable by death in 1542. But the most notorious royal witch-hunter of all time was James VI of Scotland, who went on to ...

For years, feminist scholars have argued that witch hunts were inspired by a reactionary, misogynistic church. But new scholarship, like Lyndal Roper's "Witch Craze," reveals that the real ...

Witch-hunts in mid-millennial Europe were inextricably linked with concerns over climate change. This was the era of the Little Ice Age, ...

Campaigner demands police are banned from Manchester Pride if they continue to refuse to say sorry for past homophobic ...