Learn why women and men suspected of witchcraft provoked such fear and fascination and reflect on the place of witches in society and culture today. Ronald Hutton is Professor of History at the ...

With the rise of Christianity and its wariness of ancient pagan symbols, cats became associated with witchcraft ... the most powerful figures in French history, was said to have a palace full ...

Her history was written by men, working when African voodoo was more electrifying than outmoded English witchcraft. All wrote after the Civil War, when a slave was understood to be black.

When examined through a feminist lens, the history of witchcraft reveals how patriarchal structures have weaponised the fear of witchcraft to control and oppress women. Many feminist scholars ...

Throughout centuries of European witchcraft history, women were the main targets of accusations, trials, and executions, reinforcing the connections between witchcraft and societal expectations of ...

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 ...