The Hammer of Witches (as it was known in English) became a bestseller ... A person with warts was at risk of being branded a witch Women with prominent warts or moles were thought to have ...

Over 500 years ago, in the 15th century, the women in the English Royal Family were also ... for they were true targets of a witch hunt: Joan of Navarre, Eleanor Cobham, Jacquetta of Luxembourg ...

Robert Bowes was an English diplomat working in Scotland ... is a typical image of a witch as an older woman. In popular culture, witches are typically shown as old women. It is true that those ...

An illustration of the trial of George Jacobs, who was hanged during the Salem witch trials in 1692 ... Two Canadian women have been charged with pretending to practise witchcraft, breaking ...

The essence of witchcraft was held to be entering into a pact with the devil, rather than the deeds, good or bad, which could be attributed to a witch. Women were most likely to be accused of ...

Abu-Lughod, Lila. 1993. Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories. Berkeley: University of California Press. Badoe, Yaba. 2005. “What it means to be a witch in the Northern Region of Ghana.” The Mapping ...