For example, people in England were hanged for the crime of witchcraft but in Scotland, witchcraft was classed as heresy — a religious crime — which meant the punishment was burning.

Why did Europe suddenly erupt in a fury of witch trials in the sixteenth century? Why did these trials just as suddenly die out in the eighteenth? What was the role of religion in the pursuit of ...

Martin Luther burning a Papal Bull from Leo X that ... Scotland carried out one of the largest witch hunts ever seen in Europe. It started as an attempt to root out suspected witches in the ...

Many modern pagans do witchcraft or at least hold ... a thousand years destroying the old religions of Europe while murdering, torturing and burning thousands of female teachers who they called ...

This seminar studies the representation of witches from the late 1400s to the mid-1600s, exploring the violent history of European witch hunts and the use of women’s bodies as a tool for political ...