The witches often have companions in animal forms that are much more intelligent than they appear. The thesis examines the fact that witches are always outsiders in their community and are often …

"A person who studies witches and knows a lot about them," my grandmother said. "Are you a witchophile, Grandmamma?" itchophile," she said. "I am too old t be active any longer. But when I …

This article explores the depictions of witches and devils in Early Modern European visual cultures, which helped to construct an image of witches as the ‘other’, as the enemy within.

ed as witches’ imps. Although no book has been written before on witchcraft in Ely, this book is dependent on some of the excellent scholarly work that has been undertaken on the Ely witch trials, …

t popular ideas relate magicians and witches. Undoubtedly the most famous statute in canon law regarding witchcraft is the canon Episcopi, thought by medieval authorities to have originated at the …

During the end of the seventeenth century, hysteria swept through the New England colonies, particularly in Salem, Massachusetts, when people became convinced that some of their fellow …

SUMMARY: Were there really witches in 1692? Or was there a mysterious illness that caused girls to convulse and hallucinate? Author Rosalyn Schanzer gives readers a perfect introduction to this dark …