Witches

A person with light hair and glasses sits in a garden beside a stone wall, surrounded by blooming red roses and green plants. They wear a brown dress with white polka dots and rest one arm on their knee while the other hand supports their chin, giving a relaxed, contemplative pose.

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"In the 1640s, people searched for the devil’s followers”: hunting witches in the Civil War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Why did witches confess?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration of a witch on a broomstick, wearing a pointed hat.

General History

Why do ‘wicked’ witches wear pointed hats? The real history explained

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Don’t fear the fairies – but do allow a little enchantment into your life. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Scotland's season of the witch. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Satan & the sabbath: witchhunting in the Basque Country. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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HistoryExtra Academy witchcraft quiz – week four. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Witches in popular culture, with Professor Marion Gibson. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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5 books about witchcraft, selected by Professor Marion Gibson. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Tituba of Salem, in a 19th-century illustration (Photo by The Granger Collection/Alamy)

General Early Modern

5 things you (probably) didn’t know about the history of witchcraft. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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HistoryExtra Academy witchcraft quiz – week three. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Witch trials, with Professor Marion Gibson. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An 1866 painting imagines a suspected ‘witch’ being led away from a braying mob during the 17th century (Photo by WAVE: The Museums, Galleries and Archives of Wolverhampton/Getty Images)

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Rough injustice: what really happened at a witch trial?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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HistoryExtra Academy witchcraft quiz – week two. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Demonology, with Professor Marion Gibson. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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HistoryExtra Academy witchcraft quiz – week one. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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What is a witch? with Professor Marion Gibson. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A group of supposed witches being beaten in front of King James I and VI

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Why was King James VI and I obsessed with witch hunts?

A statue of Alice Nutter, one of the 1612 Pendle Witches. The statue is in her home village on Blacko Bar Road, Roughlee. (Image by Alamy)

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The Pendle witches: what happened in the infamous Lancashire witch trial?

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Scotland’s last witch. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Elizabethan witchcraft: a trial that divided a community. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Witchcraft: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Haitians celebrate Kanaval, which takes place in the run-up to Lent. Later, over Easter, Haitian secret societies will use brooms to ‘sweep up’ zonbi spirits. (Photo by Jessica Obert/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

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Zombies of the Caribbean: your guide to zonbi spirits. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 20th-century image depicts a ‘witch’ being burned alive in Munich. In reality, most suspects had already been killed before being set alight (Photo by Fototeca Gilardi/Getty Images)

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8 popular misconceptions about the history of witchcraft in Europe. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

As well as practising Wicca, other traditions with Pagan roots – such as celebrating the summer solstice at Stonehenge – still remain popular. (Photo by Chris J Ratcliffe/AFP via Getty Images)

20th Century

Wicca and modern witchcraft: a history

Suspected witch Mary Sutton is “swum” in a Bedfordshire millpond in 1612, as shown in a contemporary illustration. (Picture by Getty Images)

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Witchfinding: what drove the hunters’ cruel crusade and what methods did they use?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Witch hunters: cynical persecutors or misguided zealots?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Malcolm GaskillThe Ruin of All Witches. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A forgotten witch hunt in New England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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England’s last witches. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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