Walpurga Hausmännin, a German midwife accused of witchcraft, confessed to killing 41 babies, 2 women in labor, and at least 9 cows before she was burned at the stake in 1587. But those and other ...

Women in early modern Wales typically dressed in long skirts, large woollen shawls, and tall, black hats. Could they have ...

As children dress up as witches for Halloween, we are reminded that there was a time when witches were persecuted and executed by society. For a look at this ugly period of European history, I ...

WASHINGTON, March 1 (UPI) -- Something about the great European witch craze never made sense. Why did this “primitive” hysteria come as late as it did, beginning only in the mid-15th century and ...

*Originally published on December 14, 2022. Historian Mairi Cowan has been investigating one of Quebec's weirdest true tales — and she's finally able to piece together a detailed story of what ...

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