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 ...

“Witchcraft” offers a deep dive into the many facets of a centuries-old tradition in the Western world, weaving more than 400 classic and contemporary artworks with essays and interviews by what ...

The persecution began in the 1500s and lasted almost two centuries. Nearly 4,000 people were accused of witchcraft, a vast majority of them women. They were arrested, brutally tortured and coerced ...

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, ...

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 ...

The cases documented in the 1700s show that witchcraft accusations were happening in Connecticut much later than previously thought. It may be a little known fact to some: Connecticut’s witch trials ...