Witches

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11 shocking moments in history

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Shakespeare’s Macbeth and King James’s witch hunts

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The astronomer and the witch: Johannes Kepler’s fight to save his mother from execution

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A brief history of witches by Suzannah Lipscomb

The gatehouse of Lancaster Castle

History explorer: the Pendle witches

From The Library

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Witches through history – in pictures

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Video: Tracy Borman on the Witches of Belvoir

This 16th-century woodcut depicts King James VI at the North Berwick witch trials, the case that first sparked his obsession with hunting. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

James VI and I: the king who hunted witches

From The Library

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America Bewitched: The Story of Witchcraft After Salem

Woodcut Of A English Witch Hanging

Witches in the dock: 10 of Britain’s most infamous witch trials