Walpurga Hausmännin, a German midwife accused of witchcraft, confessed to killing 41 babies, 2 women in labor, and at least 9 cows before she was burned at the stake in 1587. But those and other ...

(RNS) — As Halloween approaches, the Rev. David Collins, a Jesuit professor of history at Georgetown University, takes us back to a time in European history when witches were persecuted and executed ...

WASHINGTON, March 1 (UPI) -- Something about the great European witch craze never made sense. Why did this “primitive” hysteria come as late as it did, beginning only in the mid-15th century and ...

YORK — In the summer of 1682, as the Comet that would come to be known as Halley's blazed in the sky, residents of the island community of what is now New Castle, N.H., were attacked by a ...

Rare books, prints, manuscripts and objects that illuminate the roots of our obsession with supernatural powers Ghosts, witches, sorcerers and demons: our fascination with the supernatural stretches ...

The average reader would be surprised to know that many pastors, church leaders and members have absolutely no idea as to what spiritual warfare or deliverance is, or how they relate to the body of ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) On an October's day in 1594, Gwen ferch Ellis was led to the gallows in the middle of Denbigh town square in north Wales, and hanged. She was the first recorded woman in ...

As children dress up as witches for Halloween, we are reminded that there was a time when witches were persecuted and executed by society. For a look at this ugly period of European history, I ...