Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Broomsticks, cauldrons and pointy hats often come to mind when someone says the word "witch." Around Halloween and spooky season, ...

You probably remember backyard games, doodling symbols in the dirt, or trying to “read” someone’s future by staring at their ...

If you thought that accusations of witchcraft were a quaint moral panic surely left behind in the Salem witch trial era — well, think again. Some American pastors are still accusing their own ...

Aerial view of Vardo, Norway, the fishing town at the center of the 17th-century Finnmark witch trials Timo Noko via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 2.0 On Christmas Eve in 1617, sailors in Finnmark, ...

While the hysteria in Salem, Mass., regarding witches was full-blown, New York became a sanctuary for accused witches to flee to from other states if they could. What helped New York avoid the witch ...

Waltraud Maierhofer, holding dual appointments in German and Global Health Studies, teaches a UI course titled, “Witch Hunts in Fact and Fiction.” And, in doing so, hopes to impart an understanding ...

The witch is a deeply important and appealing figure, and her story is more relevant than ever. Witches weren’t evil, and they certainly didn’t wear pointy black hats. Instead, society has long used ...

(MENAFN- GetNews) A Compendium of Irish Witchcraft is a new piece of historical writing that is provoking discussion both in the literary and academic communities by challenging the most shadowed and ...