Witchcraft has long been dismissed as superstition or spectacle — but a new interdisciplinary field reframes it as feminist ...

Witchcraft close witchcraftIn a historical context, this was thought to be a kind of magic that could be used to cause harm to people or property. Witches were often accused of obtaining their ...

The last proceedings of the Salem Witch Trials in Massachusetts ended in 1693. But 331 years later, religious witch hunts remain a common — if not well-publicized — occurrence in countries ...

Dr. Amanda Foreman analyses the seventeenth century persecution of women as witches. A contemporary context is provided alongside its’ continuity through the ages. The explosion of witch trials ...

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 ...