Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While the women accused in the infamous Salem witch trials in colonial America have long since been pardoned, the convictions of ...

In 2013, a blue plaque, the historic marker of British heritage, was bestowed, for the first time, on the home of a witch. “[Valiente’s] collection is seen as the most important of its kind in the ...

Up to 60,000 so-called “witches” are thought to have been executed across Europe during the 1600s and 1700s, with tens of thousands more put on trial. But new research suggests that one English woman ...

Patricia Crowther proudly advertised what had gotten so many women hanged, drowned or burned alive in centuries past: She was a witch. As a Wiccan high priestess, Ms. Crowther spent decades casting ...