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, ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – From curanderos to hechiceros and brujos, New Mexico has a rich cultural past that has often led to rumors of spellcasters. On this episode of New Mexico Strange, KRQE News 13 Host ...

The history of witchcraft and the centuries of persecution that it has aroused have been explored in a new book focusing on 13 of the most infamous cases from around the world. Witchcraft: A History ...

So claimed the 15th-century writers of theMalleus Maleficarum, or ‘Hammer of the Witches,’ a handbook for identifying women thought to be conspiring with the Devil. How did women come to be seen this ...

Glebe House Museum is celebrating its 100th anniversary with a show that explores some allegedly supernatural elements of Connecticut history. The museum is presenting "Ground Zero: Witchcraft in ...

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 image of the witch is often portrayed as a female figure, closely tied to the perception of witchcraft as a female crime. Throughout centuries of European witchcraft history, women were the main ...

EDINBURGH, Scotland (RNS) — Just off of Royal Mile in Old Town Edinburgh, in a 17th-century stone building on Chalmers Close, is a new museum that, though dedicated to a part of history most Scots ...

With distant family members looking on, Connecticut senators voted Thursday to absolve the 12 women and men convicted of witchcraft -- 11 of whom were executed — more than 370 years ago and apologize ...

BOSTON — In 1648, Margaret Jones, a midwife, became the first person in Massachusetts — the second in New England — to be executed for witchcraft, decades before the infamous Salem witch trials.