Other accused witches included Agnes Sampson, a respected elderly woman in North Berwick and Dr John Fian, a local ...

The witch hunts in Central Europe took off in the late 15th century and lasted for almost 300 years, resulting in the prosecution of roughly 90,000 people, with nearly 45,000 executions.

Grim. Anna was decapitated in Switzerland in 1782. She was the last person in Europe to be executed for the crime of witchcraft. Like many other confessions of witchcraft, hers was extracted by ...

A new history of the seventeenth-century Basque witch-hunt usefully blows away some old myths, but fails to explain ...

Generally, the worst punishment would be that the 'witch' would be shunned by their community. That changed between around 1450 and 1750. During this time, across Europe, witches were hunted ...

Evolving Perceptions," uses audio-dubbed tableaux and informational displays to educate visitors on the European witchcraft trials, the history of witch-hunting and the evolution of the term ...

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 ...

“The Possessed” is a dark, surrealist exploration of a love triangle between two women fleeing the European witch hunts and the man who becomes their captive. Sendijarević tells ...

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 ...

“The Possessed,” which has secured majority production funding, is a dark, surrealist exploration of a love triangle between two women fleeing the European witch hunts and the man who becomes their ...