Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the earliest depictions of flying witches is in a 15th-century text entitled "Le champion des dames," or "The Defender of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On a midsummer day in 1438, a young man from the north shore of Lake Geneva presented himself to the local church inquisitor. He ...

On a midsummer day in 1438, a young man from the north shore of Lake Geneva presented himself to the local church inquisitor. He had a confession to make. Five years earlier, his father had forced him ...

The Middle Ages and early modern period were not a good time for anyone, particularly women who deviated from a very limited set of expectations. Between superstition, religious hysteria, and social ...

A new campaign is working to restore the reputation of witches, a group that has been persecuted throughout history, with Scotland’s first minister calling medieval witch trials an “injustice on a ...

While working on a graduate school paper on the mystical powers of coral, gemologist Anna Rasche ventured deep into the archives of the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum’s library. Coral is the ...

Travel back in time with Witch, a new medieval horror from filmmakers Craig Hinde & Marc Zammit. As the title suggests, this is a film about witchcraft. But this isn’t just about human witches with a ...