Emmie Brookman, a 28-year-old partner in a home products business, and her fiancé, 34-year-old Norton Johnston, bought the ...

left-handedness was associated with witchcraft and therefore strongly discouraged, reflecting the negative connotations and ...

Sculptor Andy Scott's memorial to the 81 residents of Prestonpans, East Lothian, who were executed for witchcraft during the 16th century. In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in the ...

A 16th-century print depicts the witch-hunter Joan ... largely put an end to the persecutions in Catalonia in 1622, though witchcraft trials continued sporadically, in remote areas, until as ...

The essence of witchcraft was held to be entering into a pact with the ... the first of which was in the 1590's and the second in the 1640's. The late 16th-century craze was encouraged by the return ...

The Scottish Witchcraft Act became law and ... to confess during questioning was important for the trial. This 16th Century German woodcut shows a man being tortured while being questioned ...

"The trail also commemorates the lives of the Tendring communities that were brutally persecuted for witchcraft in the 16th and 17th Centuries." Professor of European history Alison Rowlands from ...

In 16th and 17th century Scotland, roughly 4,000 people were accused of witchcraft. The rate of executions were five times the European average, and of the accused, 85% were women. The BBC's ...