Our image of what a witch looks like–the hooked nose, the hat, the black cat, the broom and the cauldron–descends directly from some of these pamphlets, writes Jon Crabb for the Public Domain ...

Photograph by Bridgeman Images This title page of a 1693 witch hunt pamphlet by Cotton Mather, a Puritan minister during the Salem witch trials, reflects the fear and fervor that fueled the ...

The woodcut illustrating the 1641 pamphlet shows Mother Shipton as an unattractive Tudor woman, not yet attributed with traditional witch-like features. Witchcraft is mentioned in the pamphlet ...

AS we approach Hallowe’en, with its association with witchcraft, it is interesting and instructive to consider a celebrated historical pamphlet that was published anonymously in London in 1591.

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 ...