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The witch trials in Europe and America were fundamentally shaped by particular biblical interpretations that viewed witchcraft as a severe spiritual threat warranting extreme measures.

The 15th-century description of a witch hunt in the Bernese Simmental became the blueprint for witch hunts across Europe.

The tiny European witches' village cursed by the Catholic Church for hundreds of years It's the only town in Spain that has been excommunicated by the Catholic Church and is known as a hotbed of ...

As Dublin-based beer historian Dr. Christina Wade has written, there’s no evidence that directly suggests female “brewsters,” as they may have been known at the time, were targeted for witchcraft ...

Visit Italy's very own Town of Witches in the mountains, a so-called "Salem of Europe" where, centuries ago, about 30 people were persecuted by the church.

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 ...

TV witches have taken on many shapes: kawaii ‘magical girls,’ Satanist aunties, voodoo queens, and immortal sorceresses. We ranked the 20 best, from ‘Bewitched’ to ‘Agatha All Along.’ ...

How one of humanity’s most important inventions fuelled deadly witch hunts in Europe Early books and influence of nearby cities created perfect conditions for persecution of women, study says ...

About 400 years ago, the European witch hunts were at their peak. Between the 15th and 18th centuries, an estimated 50,000 people, mostly women, were executed for witchcraft across Europe. They ...

Even though they are all called 'witches,' their form varies depending on the culture and region. For example, witches in Europe are thought to be beings who use tools to fly in the sky, transform ...