Witches

A fairy in a green dress balances on the palm of a hand with a yellow background

Don’t fear the fairies – but do allow a little enchantment into your life

Scotland's season of the witch

Satan & the sabbath: witchhunting in the Basque Country

HistoryExtra Academy witchcraft quiz – week four

Witches in popular culture, with Professor Marion Gibson

5 books about witchcraft, selected by Professor Marion Gibson

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

HistoryExtra Academy witchcraft quiz – week three

Witch trials, with Professor Marion Gibson

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)

Rough injustice: what really happened at a witch trial?

HistoryExtra Academy witchcraft quiz – week two

Demonology, with Professor Marion Gibson

HistoryExtra Academy witchcraft quiz – week one

What is a witch? with Professor Marion Gibson

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

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)

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

Scotland’s last witch

Elizabethan witchcraft: a trial that divided a community

Witchcraft: everything you wanted to know

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)

Zombies of the Caribbean: your guide to zonbi spirits

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)

8 popular misconceptions about the history of witchcraft in Europe

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)

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)

Witchfinding: what drove the hunters’ cruel crusade and what methods did they use?

Witch hunters: cynical persecutors or misguided zealots?

Malcolm GaskillThe Ruin of All Witches

A forgotten witch hunt in New England

England’s last witches

Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson as Harry, Ron and Hermione on the set of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Photo by Peter Mountain/Warner Bros. Pictures/THA)

The real magic of Harry Potter: 15 details the wizarding world borrows from history

A scene from the Salem witch trials, depicted in a 19th-century lithograph. How two girls’ accusations of witchcraft escalated into one of the darkest episodes in early American history has long puzzled historians. (Image by Alamy)

When the devil stalked Salem: the story of the Salem witch trials

Bewitched cars & mail-order charms: witchcraft in modern France