Roger Ebert was no different. When he didn’t like a movie, he often said it using the most interesting choice of words. He ...

the Massachusetts legislature has also worked to clear the names of those accused of demonic sorcery during the Salem Witch Trials, which were heard in colonial courts in the 1600s. Self ...

As May approaches, Netflix is set to refresh its lineup, bidding farewell to some beloved films. Discover which cinematic ...

Adapted from the 1975 book by James Clavell, Shogun reinvents the story of an English sailor shipwrecked on the shores of 1600s ... off on the Witch’s Road, a dangerous series of trials which ...

It’s a building steeped in history from a time when witchcraft was considered a real threat and a ... bar but what I keep coming back to is the garments we found. “In the 1600s, when night fell you ...

Witchcraft accusations have continued to fuel jungle justice in Bauchi State, with elderly women and vulnerable individuals often the targets of mob violence. In the most recent case, a ...

This article discusses the indictment of Margaret Carpenter, an OB/GYN from New York, for sending abortion-inducing prescriptions to a young girl in Louisiana, the first known case since Dobbs v.

The pivotal accuser at the trials, Tituba, would go down in history ... the Massachusetts Bay Colony grappled with our deadliest witchcraft epidemic. Early in 1692, several young girls began ...

Harvard President Alan Garber stated Monday that he would not comply with the Trump administration’s outrageous list of ...

Witchcraft has long been dismissed as superstition or spectacle — but a new interdisciplinary field reframes it as feminist resistance. In The Witch Studies Reader (Duke University Press, 2025), ...

Hundreds of people suspected of witchcraft in Ghana, especially older women, face rampant human rights abuses including murder, Amnesty International said Monday, asking the government to ...

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