A visit to Salem, Massachusetts offered me a chilling realization about witch trials, with baseless accusations and mass ...
Whitewater’s reputation as filled with legendary figures, curses and communicating with the dead, has real roots that grow ...
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Meet the queens accused of witchcraft

Witch! A term that historically struck terror, often associated with women accused of dark magic and sinister deeds. Between 1300 and 1850, nearly 40,000 people in Europe were victims of witch trials, ...
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Though judicial executions took place until 1717, the last witch trial in Ely was in 1679 with an outcome of a royal pardon from Charles II. Anna said: "For anyone wishing to learn more about these ...
Whether they're knocking at your door trick or treating, or hung as decorations in shop windows, witches are rife at this ...
Earth's Ediacaran Period, roughly 630 to 540 million years ago, has always been something of a magnetic minefield for ...
The loss of the ancient world's greatest repository of knowledge has been mourned for centuries—but Julius Caesar may not ...
UB anthropologist Phillips Stevens discusses how belief in the supernatural is a survival strategy in the latest Driven to ...
Deforestation and persecution, especially by Victorian gamekeepers, eradicated wildcats from England, Wales and much of ...
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The name Advent (From the Latin word Adventus, which signifies a coming) is applied, in the Latin Church, to that period of the year, during which the Church requires the faithful to prepare for the ...