The witch hunts in Central Europe took off in the late 15th century and lasted for almost 300 years, resulting in the prosecution of roughly 90,000 people, with nearly 45,000 executions. Belief in ...

Other accused witches included Agnes Sampson, a respected elderly woman in North Berwick and Dr John Fian, a local ...

How much do you know about the strange goings on in Zagreb? Let's flick back through the pages of a dark history ...

The town is now best known as a seaside town that's perfect for a family getaway - but this wasn't always the case, and the ...

In 1584, an English gentleman named Reginald Scott wrote The Discovery of Witchcraft. The book sets out rational and religious reasons not to believe in witchcraft and exposes tricks and illusions ...

A new history of the seventeenth-century Basque witch-hunt usefully blows away some old myths, but fails to explain ...

Museum of Witch Hunt” in the town of Ribe sheds light on how a fear of witches led to persecutions that swept across Denmark and Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. While today’s Danish ...

From Italy’s rolling hills to the hidden gems of Slovenia, Europe offers the world's top truffle hunting destinations. From ...

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 ...

going on a witch hunt in an attempt to find a scapegoat for the country’s military failures," said Gerashchenko, a member of former President Pyotr Poroshenko’s European Solidarity party.