The Misdemeanor Appeals Court has overturned a previous conviction sentencing a woman to one year in prison with hard labor ...

A new book How to Kill a Witch brings a dark period of history back to grisly life – and an official tartan is being released ...

In Assam's Charaideo district, 23 individuals, comprising 12 men and 11 women, were sentenced to life imprisonment for the ...

The two women and their supporters are seeking a pardon, an apology and a national memorial in honor of all those accused and convicted of witchcraft during the law’s 173-year reign. So far ...

mostly women, who faced prosecution and execution between 1563 and 1736. Data from the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft suggests 3,837 people were accused, with around 2,500 executed. Designed and ...

With a public apology secured, Claire Mitchell KC & Zoe Venditozzi fight on for a pardon and are spreading the word with a ...

Jamshedpur: Five persons were arrested on Tuesday for killing two women on suspicion of practising witchcraft in East ...

(Men, too, were occasionally accused and complicit in betraying ... For instance, a contemporary wealthy woman also charged with witchcraft managed to avoid torture and incarceration altogether.