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 ...

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 ...

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

Why did Europe suddenly erupt in a fury of witch trials in the sixteenth century? Why did these trials just as suddenly die out in the eighteenth? What was the role of religion in the pursuit of ...

were targeted for witchcraft during the witch trials of Europe or New England that occurred from the 1400s to the 1700s. Related: One of America's First Craft Brewers Was Thomas Jefferson's Slave ...

As fear of witches reached a fever pitch in Europe, witch hunters turned to the “Malleus Maleficarum,” or “Hammer of Witches, ...

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 ...