(Burchard of Worms, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons) One change that led to witch trials across Europe was a change in how the Catholic Church viewed witchcraft. In the 10th century ...

Belief in witchcraft is still common in some rural communities, despite a strong opposition from the church in the predominantly Catholic former Portuguese colony. The deaths were confirmed by ...

The place, Boston's Old South Church. Samuel Sewall stands silently ... for his role as one of the three judges in the Salem witch trials, where nineteen people were wrongly accused of witchcraft ...

Visitors to North Berwick may miss the signs still present today, but those looking carefully while visiting St Andrew's Church may spot ... there were a number of witch trials going on in nearby ...