The Witch, The Weird, and The Wonderful

Commonly referred to as The Four Witches , there is very little actually known for certain about this intriguing engraving by fifteenth-c...

Today's story from the Library began on 15 th November, 1657 in the small rural Somerset town of Shepton Mallet and ended a few short ...

The passing of the Witchcraft Act in 1735 did not mean people immediately abandoned their belief in witches, a fact illustrated by a fasci...

The stereotypical image of a witch with her broomstick is deeply entrenched in the popular consciousness. If you ask anyone, from six to ...

Among many things, I am a collector of quotes. Whether long, short, amusing, or inspiring, if it catches my interest, down it goes. It was ...

 An interest in everything witchcraft related is a wonderful excuse to explore the vast and varied body of artwork with witchy undertones....

"Witches - so that's the 17th century?" It is a natural assumption; after all, the trials and persecutions of that period a...