The persecution began in the 1500s and lasted almost two centuries. Nearly 4,000 people were accused of witchcraft, a vast ...

In Scotland until the 1500s, witchcraft was seen as a religious ... An engraving showing a German witch finder accusing a woman of witchcraft. It didn't take too much to be accused of witchcraft.

A group of witches offering wax effigies to the Devil in a 17th century woodcut print. Beliefs about what witchcraft involved changed over time. By the 1500s, organised Christian religion had ...

The chilling last words, spoken by Anna, Princess of Denmark, open Kate Foster’s electrifying novel The King’s Witches. ‘The ...