Grim. Anna was decapitated in Switzerland in 1782. She was the last person in Europe to be executed for the crime of witchcraft. Like many other confessions of witchcraft, hers was extracted by ...

Generally, the worst punishment would be that the 'witch' would be shunned by their community. That changed between around 1450 and 1750. During this time, across Europe, witches were hunted ...

Why did Europe suddenly erupt in a fury of witch trials in the sixteenth century? Why did these trials just as suddenly die out in the eighteenth? What was the role of religion in the pursuit of ...

Trump took to Truth Social on Friday, writing, "FREE MARINE LE PEN," and dismissing the court’s ruling as a "Witch Hunt of ...

President Donald Trump threw his support behind France’s embattled far-right leader only hours after French President ...

In his post, Trump likened Le Pen’s legal troubles to his own, arguing that European leftists were weaponizing the legal system to suppress their political opponents. "The Witch Hunt against ...

This seminar studies the representation of witches from the late 1400s to the mid-1600s, exploring the violent history of European witch hunts and the use of women’s bodies as a tool for political ...