What's interesting is that the origin story of witches has nothing to do with Halloween, potions or spells. The origin has ...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctvv416z0 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctvv416z0.3 To understand witchcraft we must descend into the darkness of the ...

One of the earliest depictions of flying witches is in a 15th-century text entitled "Le champion des dames," or "The Defender of Ladies." Martin Le Franc/W. Schild. Die Maleficia der Hexenleut' via ...

Medieval Europe from the 5th century to the 15th century was a time when people were widely believed to exist as magic, monsters, and fairies. It seems that the concept of ``wicked people perform ...

In the stacks of my local library researching a novel, I pulled a paperback edition of a medieval text from one of the shelves, thumbed through it and read this passage: ""All wickedness is but little ...

The Vatican has published a new study on the abuses committed by the medieval Inquisition and come to a rather surprising conclusion - that in fact the much feared judges of heresy were not as brutal ...