The sudden emergence of witch trials in early modern Europe may have been fueled by one of humanity's most significant intellectual milestones: the invention of the printing press in 1450.

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 ...

Who burned the witches? For years, feminist scholars have argued that witch hunts were inspired by a reactionary, misogynistic church. But new scholarship, like Lyndal Roper's "Witch Craze ...

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.

There’s a through line between the president’s pardons and his intervention in the Jair Bolsonaro, Marine Le Pen and Benjamin Netanyahu cases.

As fear of witches reached a fever pitch in Europe, witch hunters turned to the “Malleus Maleficarum,” or “Hammer of Witches,” for guidance.

Did the church believe in witchcraft? One change that led to witch trials across Europe was a change in how the Catholic Church viewed witchcraft.