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When James I (or VI) came to the throne, he brought with him a zeal for witch-hunting. Witches were the popular evil of the day – they provided a very convenient scapegoat, and a way of clamping down ...

It’s 1612 and Lancashire is ablaze with a witch hunt. Nine-year-old Jennet Device unwittingly becomes the face of a witch trial. Her testimony, unprecedented for a child, seals her family’s fate. 24 ...

Jeanette Winterson’s new novel is a strange and spare piece of horror writing about witch trials that arrives on these shores just in time for Halloween. “The Daylight Gate” is based on a real-life ...

Award-winning comedian Edy Hurst has created a new magical and mystical comedy theatre show that offers a humorous, heartfelt and unique insight into the shifting and sometimes mysterious world of ...

Many Americans associate witch trials with colonial Massachusetts, mass hysteria, Arthur Miller’s play “The Crucible” and the 1996 film adaptation of the play starring a wild-eyed Winona Ryder. It’s ...

Secret Catholic or secret witch, the mystery surrounding Alice Nutter remains. Statue of Alice Nutter in Roughlee, England (photo: Hornbeam Arts, CC BY-NC 2.0, via Flickr, https://flic.kr/p/eEwe6Y) ...

Ask anybody from East Lancashire what they know about April 1612 and they all say Pendle Witches. Were the women (and one man) who died actually witches? In the evil sense of the world the answer is ...

This contemporaneous illustration depicts women being hanged for witchcraft in Newcastle upon Tyne sometime between 1650 and 1662. The city was one of several locations where witch hunts and ...

IN “The Wonderful Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster” we have one of the most authentic documents in the whole literature of witchcraft. It was written as an account of the trial of a ...