Witches and witch trials remain a source of enduring curiosity. Julie Stone Peters, H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of English ...

Theatre Guild Valdosta presents Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible,” 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, Feb. 13-15; 2 p.m.

The 300-year-old book of witch ... trial itself. Mr Clarke said the book was "fascinating" as it was also published the same year of the last witch execution of Mary Hicks in Huntingdon, in modern ...

Other accused witches included Agnes Sampson, a respected elderly woman in North Berwick and Dr John Fian, a local schoolmaster. Like Gillis Duncan they were both tortured, with Sampson having her ...

The sudden emergence of witch trials in early modern Europe may have been fueled ... widespread persecution that occurred during this period was unprecedented. According to Doten-Snitker, the ...

The "Malleus Maleficarum" spurred centuries long witch-hunts and trials ... believe all modern witchcraft is associated with the devil. But, this is not the case. Mankey said early modern witches ...

It was described as a ‘witch ... them on trial. He influenced wider belief that witchcraft was a crime against the monarch and God. Social tensions The English Civil War led to a period of ...

Suranne Jones thinks it's about time the term "witch trials" got a "rebrand ... The audience has to "sit through some guff" from "modern practitioners" of witchcraft but thankfully it's "kept ...

By employing art history theories and gender studies, it examines the role of women in maintaining social order and the persecution of “rebellious bodies” during the period shaped ... and Architecture ...

The Crucible” is a dramatization of the Salem Witch Trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692-1693. American playwright Arthur Miller penned the play as an allegory for ...