Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Seventy-eight percent of the people executed for witchcraft in New England in the late 17th and early 18th centuries were women.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustration from "The History of Witches and Wizards, 1720." | "The History of Witches and Wizards, 1720." The witch panics that ...

Centuries after kingly torturers and public stakes targeted self-sufficient women, the lingering legacy of the witch hunts ...

"Double double toil and trouble" is a quote from Shakespeare's Macbeth that conjures images of evil witches making potions in giant cauldrons. But the truth was that women persecuted as witches were ...

Over recent weeks, the slogan “ditch the witch” has been featured alongside AI-generated photos of Victorian premier Jacinta Allan. She’s depicted in a dusty and distressed witch’s hat, a fake wart on ...

Director Elizabeth Sankey posits a dubious connection between historical witchery and post-partum psychological suffering in this documentary bowing at Tribeca. By Robyn Bahr As an artwork detailing ...

Witches are a pop-culture constant that can no longer be treated like a passing trend. Which does make sense, given the political landscape: If the government is dead set on turning back the clock on ...

The words feminism and witchcraft conjure images of women not conforming to the pressures of a patriarchal society. At her core, the witch is the anti-mother. She is some combination of old, single, ...

The Coven, an all-women-or-queer assembly of musicians in New Orleans, will present a live show of music written by and about “witches” and witchery at d.b.a. on Friday, April 14, from 7 to 9 p.m. The ...