Seventy-eight percent of the people executed for witchcraft in New England in the late 17th and early 18th centuries were women. Jef Thompson/Shutterstock.com When powerful men cry witch, they’re ...

Was there any scientific basis to potions, lotions and salves that folk healers prescribed, or was it all just hocus pocus?

C.J. Cooke’s The Last Witch is a masterfully dark and deeply gripping historical horror novel that plunges the reader into ...

Women have been the subservient gender for centuries as a result of theurgical, religious, and patriarchal stereotypes. Fear and paranoia of the misogynistic society during the 15th, 16th, and 17th ...

Look, I’m obsessed with murder and even more obsessed with reading and listening to stories about murderers. So many of them tried to kill someone, went to jail for a short time, learned from their ...

A Discovery of Witches is brewing a slow-simmer success. The supernatural drama made its commercial television debut last Sunday night on AMC and BBC America (9:00 PM ET/PT) with a cast led by Teresa ...

Reading the graphic novel The Night Witches, about female pilots who flew for the Russians in World War II, I thought about Jane Austen. More specifically, I thought about Helena Kelly’s 2017 book ...

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“Witch hunt” – it’s a refrain used to deride everything from impeachment inquiries and sexual assault investigations to allegations of corruption. When powerful men cry witch, they’re generally not ...

“Witch hunt” — it’s a refrain used to deride everything from impeachment inquiries and sexual assault investigations to allegations of corruption. When powerful men cry witch, they’re generally not ...