Cardiff students reflecting on witches, saints, wonders and more.

For many years it was believed that the nineteen innocent people who were executed in Salem in 1692 were hanged at the summit of Gallows Hill, on the edge of...

Witchcraft memorials public

Cardiff students reflecting on witches, saints, wonders and more.

Cardiff students reflecting on witches, saints, wonders and more.

The Witch of Cologne

En el marc del 25 de novembre, Dia Mundial contra la violència vers les dones, l’Ajuntament de Corbins inaugurarà el pròxim diumenge 28, una nova plaça al municipi. Aquesta està situada al carrer Sitges i rebrà el nom de Thomassa Roig, una veïna del poble que l’any 1627 va ser acusada de bruixa i assassinada per les autoritats de l’època. Amb aquest nou nomenclàtor, el municipi comptarà amb un emplaçament dedicat a una dona.

Grissel Jaffray was the last so called “witch” to burn in Dundee. Not a huge amount is known about the charges brought against her as documents relating to her trial were mysteriously d…

Midwifery was criminalized in the commonwealth until 2005.

Anna Göldi, a servant, was denounced as a witch after her employer’s eight-year-old daughter fell ill and began spitting up pins during fits of coughing, according to documents in the local archives. ...

We're grateful to Helen Woodsford-Dean and Ragnhild Ljosland for allowing us to reproduce this article, originally published in Commemorating the Victims of the Orkney Witchcraft Trials, New Orkney An...

Witchcraft memorials public

Now, 330 years after the executions, visitors to this seaside city will find a simple, peaceful memorial next to an aged colonial graveyard.

A small area at the edge of the Czech Republic saw hundreds executed for witchcraft. The incident inspired the film Witches Hammer.

The location of the last witch trials of Italy, known as "The Salem of Europe."