James was author of the King James Bible, and his Daemonologie (1603) was the manual of the 17th century Protestant witch persecutions. (See the 1922 Swedish-Danish film Häxan.) ...

Jace Tunnell and researchers from Harte Research Institute have been finding 'witch bottles' washing up on Padre Island. These bottles are said to have 16th century witches' spells inside.

While Trump is not facing the modern-day equivalent of the witchcraft persecutions that convulsed 16th- and 17th-century Europe, the original witch hunts were driven by perils from which the ...

This Map Shows the Scale of 16th- and 17th-Century Scottish Witch Hunts. The interactive tool tells the stories of 3,141 men and women accused of practicing witchcraft. Meilan Solly.

An illustration from Newes From Scotland (1591), a pamphlet that publicized ongoing witch trials in North Berwick, Scotland, across Europe.Groups of accused women are depicted brewing spells to ...

Most witch hunts happened in 17th-century New England. ... witch persecutions can be seen as the dark side of the Renaissance, the Reformation and the scientific revolution. Myth No. 3.