Maryland is the most recent state to introduce legislation to exonerate those convicted of witchcraft centuries ago. But why ...

Folk horror has been a favorite of horror fans for decades, stretching back to the original Wicker Manand continuing to the ...

A bill introduced in the state House by Maryland lawmakers could exonerate individuals accused or convicted of witchcraft ...

"Witchcraft for Wayward Girls" is, in its most basic form, about unwed teenage mothers who are sent away to a "home" in ...

Rupert Russell believes the UK's 1960s-1970s embrace of Wicca helped give birth to the Satanic Panic when its ideas were co-opted by opportunistic Americans.

And in a book due for release tomorrow, K.C. Johnson and Stuart Taylor Jr. urge us to consider one part of the Obama legacy in particular: his administration’s stoking of “witch hunts ...

Two men are on trial in Zambia on charges of practicing witchcraft and possessing charms intended to harm the country's president, in a case that has become a source of fascination in the southern ...

Paolo Di Gregorio will talk about “In League with the Devil, Witchcraft in Colonial America” at the town historical society’s next meeting on Tuesday, March 25. This presentation will tell the story ...

But these causes don't act alone, as "multiple roots entwine to produce a witch hunt," Scientific American said. These roots can include a "belief in sorcery, a patriarchal society, sudden and ...

The sole sponsor of a state resolution aimed at exonerating nearly a dozen colonial Marylanders accused of witchcraft or ...

Gothic novels, disability in literature, pedagogy, colonial American witchcraft trials, American literature, and transatlantic literary studies. Bridget M. Marshall's most recent book is "Industrial ...