Like other studies — Robin Briggs’ “Witches and Neighbors” and Brian Levack’s “The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe” are two of the best known — it is crammed with little stories ...

The I AM WITCH: Tales from the Roundhouse educational and experiential exhibition at The Storey in Lancaster, 4th-28th January 2022, will explore the history of the European witch hunts.

The witch hunts in Central Europe took off in the late 15th century and lasted for almost 300 years, resulting in the prosecution of roughly 90,000 people, with nearly 45,000 executions.

In the prologue to 1994’s Witchcraze: A New History of the European Witch Hunts, author Anne Llewellyn Barstow observes, “The longer I have worked on these sixteenth- and seventeenth-century ...

This content was published on Aug 21, 2017 Europe’s last witch, Anna Göldi, continues to fascinate more than 200 years after her execution in Switzerland. Read more: ‘Anna Göldi ...

A woman beheaded after she was accused of causing a girl to spit pins and convulse was exonerated Wednesday, more than 200 years after she became the last person executed as a witch in Europe.

European witch hunts of the 15 th to 17 th centuries targeted witches that were thought to be responsible for epidemics and crop failures related to declining temperatures of the Little Ice Age. A ...

1. Around 45,000 people were executed during the European Witch Craze. The method of execution differed in different countries. For example, people in England were hanged for the crime of ...