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Witches are having a moment. Beyond the hit musical Wicked, there TikTok Hashtags and millions of posts celebrating witches ...
Presented as part of Herstory Arts Festival, Rebecca McNamee’s (Playwright & Director) ABIGAIL WILLIAMS is a response to ...
In more recent memory, theocratic regimes from Iran to Afghanistan have shown the cost of governing through religious ...
In 1692, the colonial town of Salem, Massachusetts, became caught up in a fervor over alleged witchcraft. In her new book “The Witches,” Stacy Schiff explores what led a group of Puritans to ...
a professor of American history at Cornell University and author of "In the Devil's Snare," a new book about the Salem witch trials. "The Puritans were typical people of their time in that they ...
Hungary’s witch trials occupy a unique place among the medieval and early modern European witch hunts. Unlike in Western Europe, where persecution was frequent and brutal, Hungary followed a different ...