But what does witchcraft really mean? And how have beliefs and attitudes surrounding witches evolved across time? Delve into the history and symbolism of witches with our panel of award-winning ...

299-312. “Witch-Hunting in Spain: the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.” Routledge History of Witchcraft, ed. Johannes Dillinger (Routledge, 2020), pp. 134-144. “When Witches Litigate: New Evidence ...

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 ...

This woodcut shows witches casting a spell to cause rain. From De Lamiis et Phitonicis Mulieribus, written by Ulrich Molitor in 1489. (Charles Walker Collection/Alamy Stock Photo) There was also a ...

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.

Witches are old—too old to be sexy, too old to bear children—and even today, we stigmatise older women as “problematic” or “ugly”. Exploring the true history of witches reveals much ...

From among this complex environment of different understandings of witchcraft emerged Modern Pagan Witchcraft, also known as Wicca, in the 1950s. It has been described as one of the fastest ...

A talk in Carlisle will challenge the notion that witchcraft was a solely female crime through an exploration of its history. The History of Witchcraft and Feminism will be presented at Harraby ...