Category: Miscellaneous History – Witch

The lands of Southern Europe, Spain and Italy, each had a long association with the black arts. Some of the earliest true witch trials in…

The Vaudois area of the Alps was a hotbed of Catholic heresy in the 12th century. The Valdenses (Waldenses) were followers of Peter Valdo (Waldo):…

During the height of the witch-hunts, a period between the mid-14th and mid-17th centuries, the cruelest, most savage torture was used against accused witches in…

Pentacle Quest A nearly 10-year effort by Witchcraft and Pagan organizations and families to require the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to allow Pentacles…

Scandinavia experienced significantly less witch-hunting than did the lands of the German Empire immediately to its south. As elsewhere in Europe, belief in harmful sorcery…

Witchcraft was not a significant problem, and witch-hunts were extremely rare, throughout almost all of the European colonies in the New World. The major exception…

The Basque lands comprise a small region in southwestern France and northern Spain, lying on either side of the Pyrenees. They were the scene of…

Lithobolia of New Hampshire, The A strange case of Lithoboly, or stone-peltings, occurred in the late 1600s in the colony of New Hampshire and was…

Macbeth Shakespeare’s play about intrigue and murder in the royal court of Scotland is one of the most influential literary works in establishing the stereotype…

Salem “Old Witch” Jail The jail that housed the accused Salem Witches during the witch hysteria of 1692–93 was a cold, foul, rat-infested dungeon located…