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 ...

Witch trials were not unique to Salem. Europe had undergone a witch-hunting craze from the 15th to the 18th centuries, prosecuting an estimated 100,000 people—mostly women—for accusations of ...

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 ...