Role of James I James I’s fear of witchcraft created panic throughout England. His book Daemonologie (1597) described what people thought of as the horrors of witchcraft, gave reasons for ...

From the Pendle Witches to Samlesbury Hall, here are some of the areas in Lancashire that locals associate with witchcraft.

A further law was passed in 1604 during the reign of James I who took a keen interest in demonology and even published a book on it. The 1562 and 1604 Acts transferred the trial of witches from ...

Hundreds of innocent people (mostly women) were executed as suspected witches. The interest came from the very top, led by King James I himself who published a book on the subject called Demonology.

But worse still, that many more witches were involved. The trials that followed coincided with James’s terrifying journey and he became personally involved. Obsessed, perhaps, with what became ...

An engraving showing the events that led up to the North Berwick witchcraft trials from the publication 'Newes from Scotland' (1591). King James VI of Scotland, even wrote a book, the Daemonologie ...