How one of humanity’s most important inventions fuelled deadly witch hunts in Europe - Early books and influence of nearby ...

A new study in Theory and Society shows that the printing of witch-hunting manuals, particularly the Malleus maleficarum in ...

In the short indie horror Daemonologie, you play a witch finder of the 1600s, sent to a small Scottish village to discover ...

Rumors abound about Satanism. Its adherents are often portrayed as evil, bloodthirsty deviants in popular culture. But that's ...

Ranjan YumnamYuval Noah Harari is not your usual run-of-the-mill writer. After the runaway success of his book, Sapiens : A Brief History of Humankind, he has become one of the best-known public ...

October is ‘spooky season’, when ghouls and witches adorn our homes as we gear up for Halloween.

A recent historical study, published in the journal Theory and Society, seeks to explain one of the darkest and most ...

A silent "documentary" on the history of witches and witch hunting, Häxan seems even more alien and creepy now than it did a century ago.