“She’s a witch!” Poor Alison was imprisoned on charge of witchcraft, sealed in St. Andrew’s castle. And Adamson himself helped her escape imprisonment. But at a time of fear and changing ...

In Germany, the last night of April is celebrated as Walpurgis Night, a name it takes from an 8th-century abbess revered in ...

In 15th and 16th-century Europe, the fear of witches wasn’t about the supernatural; it was about fear of the unknown—of women who knew too much, questioned too loudly, or existed too freely.