The Salem witch trials took place in a period of New England history when women were accused of being witches. These accusations were deadly in some cases. It wasn’t until 2022 that the last woman ...

During the 17th-century Finnmark witch trials, 91 people were executed in Norway's northernmost region, mainly by burning at the stake ...

It’s Oct. 15, 1674, in Torsåker, Sweden. Fear and panic are in the air as 65 women and six men make their way to the execution block. All accused of witchcraft, they will each be decapitated with an ...

Halloween lands on Thursday but the spooky, consumer-driven holiday has been possessing Salem for weeks. In October, an estimated half-million visitors descend on “Witch City” (the population is ...

Holidays that promote and celebrate the bending of cultural norms have a special allure, and few of them that cross national borders freely. It is no wonder then that Halloween has become increasingly ...

Throughout history, the depiction of the witch has taken on many forms, but the archetype has always been a woman in all black, either wearing a pointy hat and flying around on a broom, or the ...

Notwithstanding the pandemic, witches in pointy black hats appear in the windows of stores and homes across my city this Halloween. Witch costumes are popular with young girls who, in ordinary times, ...

To the lore-uninitiated, the fact that witches exist in the Star Wars universe might come as a shock, but they actually have a long history on screen in the franchise. “The Acolyte” Episode 3 dives ...

Detail of brooms for witches in halloween, detail of decoration and superstition, magic and mystery(Getty Images/iStockphoto/Sergi Nunez) Look up “witches” and ...

Something wicked this way comes. Wicked fun, that is. This year we’re celebrating Nerdoween with our first-ever “Nerdist Witch Week.” During the final days of October, we’re paying tribute to those ...

The Salem witch trials occurred in colonial Massachusetts between early 1692 and mid-1693. More than 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft—the devil’s magic—and 20 were executed. In 1711, ...