The explosion of witch trials during the 17th century in Europe is explored using vivid illustrations of trials and executions. Professor Malcolm Gaskill investigate how the European pre-modern ...

A new exhibition on the Salem witch trials explores how the meaning of ... two ancestors directly involved in the witch hunts of 17th-century America—Samuel Sewall, the judge, and Mary Bliss ...

A guide named Queralt Alberch leads me past plaques tracing the history of the early 17th-century trials and executions ... the contrast with the Salem Witch Trials, where survivors had their ...

(Reginald Scot, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons) In the 17th and 18th Century ... doubts about witch hunts grew and the number of trials across Europe fell. This may be because profound ...

In 16th and 17th century Scotland, roughly 4,000 people were accused of witchcraft. The rate of executions were five times the European average, and of the accused, 85% were women. The BBC's ...