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.

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 town is now best known as a seaside town that's perfect for a family getaway - but this wasn't always the case, and the village actually has a rather dark history.

While the judicial machinery of early modern witch-hunting could work with terrifying swiftness, skepticism and evidentiary barriers often made conviction difficult. Seeking proof strong enough to ...

Stories like A Court of Thorns and Roses have been seducing audiences with tales of romance and magical danger for hundreds ...

It's truly a new era in the franchise ... a game said to explore Europe's infamous witch trials from Ubisoft Montreal – with development led by Clint Hocking, the creative director of Splinter ...

"For me, the 1950s is one of the great peaks of American theatre – mainly because of how real and gritty it felt. The stories were not pretentious, they spoke in clear language about real situations ...

The Ducking stool was a 16th and 17th Century form of punishment derived from the earlier Cucking stool. The Ducking stool ...

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 ...