A new history of the seventeenth-century Basque witch-hunt usefully blows away some old myths, but fails to explain convincingly why it happened, argues Elaine Graham-Leigh In the early years of the ...

Greetings and salutations from the Advocacy for Alleged Witches and from all advocates against witch hunts in Nigeria and beyond on the occasion of this roundtable discussion on witch hunts and ...

The scale of this witch hunt caused people to question the whole process of trying people for witchcraft. An illustration from George Mackenzie's 1678 book 'Law and Customs in Scotland in Matters ...