Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Historian Mikki Brock joins WIRED to answer the internet's bubbling cauldron of questions about witches, witchcraft, and witch ...

In stories about witches, mirrors are almost always bad news. They shatter in haunted houses, trap wandering souls, and reveal things we were never meant to see. But in Old Europe, long before the ...

For over three centuries, a shadow of paranoia stretched across Europe and the New World, leading to one of the most chilling ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 'Malleus Maleficarum,' a medieval handbook, was used to try and execute supposed witches. Its influence lasted for centuries – ...

In the prologue to 1994’s Witchcraze: A New History of the European Witch Hunts, author Anne Llewellyn Barstow observes, “The longer I have worked on these sixteenth- and seventeenth-century events, ...