Identifying genealogical traces of several pivotal bodies of early-modern law pertaining to witchcraft. Introduction It has been...
Witchcraft
In a society without trained medical providers, folk healing offered the only option for the sick. Introduction...
The height of the witch frenzy was marked by the publication of the Malleus Maleficarum (“Hammer of...
The witch-hunts of early modern Europe took place against a backdrop of rapid social, economic, and religious...
Natural events and pandemics contributed to the hysteria surrounding the witch trials of the 16th through 18th...
Boydell’s Collection of Prints illustrating Shakespeare’s works / British Library, Public Domain Did Shakespeare’s contemporaries believe in witches? Looking...