No one doubts (p. 27) that Blackstone (“Commentaries”, 4, 60; 1765) wrote that “to deny the possibility, nay, the actual existence of witchcraft and sorcery is at once flatly to contradict ...

Have you ever wondered why Shakespeare used witchcraft and the supernatural in many of his works? Even in Shakespeare’s day people were extremely superstitious. During the Elizabethan era people ...

A criminal complaint states that he told investigators his mother “was in her bed practicing witchcraft.” When asked about her injuries, he invoked his Miranda Rights. Dazey was previously ...

The last woman believed to have been executed in England for witchcraft may have avoided the gallows, according to research.

Dr Philippa Carter used the casebooks of a Buckinghamshire astrologer-doctor to analyse links between witchcraft accusations and women's occupations. These included healthcare, childcare ...

A public apology to those accused of witchcraft between the 16th and 18th Centuries would send a powerful symbolic signal, campaigners have said. They said a statement from the Scottish government ...