JANESVILLE, WI — The Rock County Historical Society is introducing new programs that focus on evidence of paranormal events in schools and the chilling history of witchcraft. The new programs will be ...

Recently, TikToker Kaelin (@whatsinthekoolaid) found out that her oldest known ancestor is a woman who was convicted of ...

Around 50 years before the infamous Salem witch trials, fear of witches first plagued the colonial people of western Massachusetts. In the enterprising settlement of Springfield, founder and fur ...

WITCHCRAFT AT SALEM by Chadwick Hansen. 252 pages. Braziller. $6.95. The year 1692 was a very bad year for the town of Salem, Mass. During a summer of superstitious hysteria, grim events took place ...

Secret spells. Magic potions. The world of witchcraft has a powerful cultural hold and a dark history. What do centuries of witch trials teach us? Marion Gibson, professor of renaissance and magical ...

In recent decades, governments the world over have increasingly taken action to address the dark history of witch-hunting. In western Europe, memorials to victims have been erected at sites in Bamberg ...

Seven deaths in southern Malawi expose legal gaps, weak prosecutions and a colonial law that authorities say is no longer fit ...

The Malawi Law Society (MLS) has raised concerns over growing calls to criminalise witchcraft, warning that Malawi risks becoming the first country in the world to enact a law prosecuting people for ...