5. A German bestseller changed the way people felt about witchcraft In 1486, a German clergyman called Heinrich Kramer wrote a book entitled Maleus Mallificarum. The author derided witchcraft ...

A new history of the seventeenth-century Basque witch-hunt usefully blows away some old myths, but fails to explain ...

be fearful of – witchcraft. This belief in, and fear of, malevolent sorcery is both ancient and universal. Close to home, many people in Hong Kong still pay women with certain expertise under ...

The method of execution differed in different countries. For example, people in England were hanged for the crime of witchcraft but in Scotland, witchcraft was classed as heresy — a religious ...